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Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts
Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...
Simulation shows brutal execution method involving an elephant that is ‘one of the worst deaths in history’
There's a brutal execution method which would give you 'one of the worst deaths in history', and it's basically letting an ...
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Ancient humans made tools from animal bones 1.5 million years ago
Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...
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Elephants in temples: Why cling to a cruel, archaic practice and call it ‘culture’
The Supreme Court's recent remark that using elephants in temple celebrations is part of our culture highlights how ...
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For 3 decades, elephants have found a peaceful retreat in an unlikely place: Tennessee
The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30th anniversary in March, marking three decades of adopting former circus and show elephants and allowing them to retire in peaceful wilderness.
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1.5 million years ago, human ancestors used hippo bones to make tools
The bones included those from ancient elephants and hippos. Credit: CSIC César Hernández Regal In this discovery, paleoarcheologists uncovered 27 tools mostly derived from ancient hippopotamus ...
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Genetic study in Cambodia provides clues to saving endangered elephants
The study by conservation group Fauna & Flora and researchers from Cambodia and Scotland estimated there are 51 Asian ...