A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, ...
Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...
FRANKFURT/MAINZ/LEIDEN/MODENA. Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archeological finds discovered ...
About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has long been a mystery to ...
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Turtles may have been tasty snacks for Neanderthals 125,000 years ago. But their shells were probably the real prize
While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals regularly hunted European pond turtles. But they ...
The animals’ extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they could do a lot more than initially expected Riley Black | Science Correspondent ...
Current potential distribution of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in Europe. The colouring represents the probability of occurrence, with grey indicating “very unlikely” and dark ...
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