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A fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering the Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer. (Illustration by Chen Yu, reproduced with permission)

How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery

Steven Zhang, University of Helsinki and Advait M. Jukar, University of Florida

Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A giant fossil skull from Kashmir paves way to unlocking their mysteries.

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