The elephant skull was excavated from the quarry in Kashmir in 2000. Credit: Advait Jukar The discovery of 300,000 to 400,000-year-old elephant fossils and stone tools in India provides evidence of ...

The modern elephant, threatened by extinction, is protected by international agreements banning the sale of ivory from tusks. This trade ban does not apply to ornaments made of mammoth fossil ivory, ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. A team of ...

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The pre-dinosaur fossils, dating back to the Permian period, include footprints and tail marks from at least five species, plant impressions, wave ripples, and even raindrops. These rare finds ...

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While some places saw an immense decline in elephant population others witnessed a surge owing to conservation efforts. Pixabay They are the largest animals on Earth. There was a time when African ...

The scientist behind NASA's New Horizons mission gave cheering earthlings their first close-up view of the dwarf planet Found in the fossil record, these plants are more than 100 million years old ...