A giant elephant molar from the Daughters of Jacob Bridge site in northern Israel has handed archaeologists a chemical record of the wetland that sat beside early humans roughly 700,000 years ago. The ...

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern ...

The fossils belonged to Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the ...

About 700,000 years ago, a straight-tusked elephant roamed a lush river valley where early humans made stone tools. Now, one ...

An 11-year-old boy and his mom found a 1.8-million-year-old elephant tooth on a beach in England on May 24 The tooth belonged to an extinct species related to the African bush elephant, experts ...

A new study shows that the cheek teeth of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) evolved in response to dietary changes due to vegetation changes and climate change in East Africa ...

Discover what fossilized elephant teeth and tusk fragments can tell us about prehistoric ecosystems.