A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Go back further and the fossil elephants are even stranger ... Barytherium was one of the first early elephants to grow to large size, weighing over two tons. DiBgd via Wikipedia under CC By ...

published two new papers on fossils from the Pampore site. In one, researchers describe their discovery of elephant bone flakes which suggests that early humans struck the bones to extract marrow ...

Alongside the fossils, Paleolithic tools were also found at the site, indicating that early humans may have coexisted with these giant elephants and perhaps hunted them. "The finding of fossils ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed earlier than expected ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting ...

The association of the tools with the fossil emphasizes the ecological and cultural significance of Palaeoloxodon. These elephants likely played a vital role in the lives of early humans ...