During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...
The popular phrase doesn't mean, of course, that there's an actual an elephant in the room, which would be quite something. Rather, it refers to a very big topic of conversation that no one is ...
Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...
THE first-ever fossil skull of a Stegodon — an extinct relative of modern elephants — was discovered by a local in Solana, ...
The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...
Nelson Mandela University provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Over the past 15 years, through our scientific study of tracks and traces, we have identified more than ...
Introduction. Wonderful relationships : Darwinian stories of origins -- "Curtiosity's" child : Bobby Darwin's impertinent early years -- Darwin and the Pampas pirates : adventure in search of treasure ...
LOS ANGELES - You've likely uttered phrases like "the elephant in the room" or "heart of gold" in everyday conversations, but have you ever paused to consider where these expressions come from?