How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalizing puzzle of early human behavior

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 ...
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Humans butchered elephants then made large tools from their bones 400,000 years ago

Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.
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Ancient Humans Recycled Nearly Entire Elephant Carcasses 400,000 Years Ago

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

Early humans butchered elephants using small tools then made big tools from their bones, research finds

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...

With songs and sedation, experts aim to rescue Kaavan the Islamabad elephant

The trick to calming an unhappy elephant? Sing him Frank Sinatra songs, according to one of the vets tasked with assessing whether Kaavan can be moved from poor conditions in a zoo in Pakistan's ...
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Nigeria risks losing all its forest elephants – what we found when we went looking for them

Queen Omoregie received funding from the 2015 S. L. Edu Memorial Research grant and the Graduate Fellow grant, School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos to carry out this research. Bola Oboh ...
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Early humans butchered elephants using small tools and made big tools from their bones

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...