One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Excavator Martin Kursch uncovers one foot of the elephant. Credit: Jordi Serangeli, Schöningen Research Station Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, ...

When a 125,000-year-old elephant skeleton, pierced by a wooden spear, was discovered in an ancient lake bed in Germany in 1948, it was assumed that the Neanderthals who inhabited Europe at that time ...