Elephants

'Fat factories': Neanderthals orchestrated massive elephant kills 125,000 years ago

New findings show that they systematically managed resources and reveal what they hunted, something even scientists did not expect.

MARCH 18, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

World's oldest Neanderthal fingerprint found on 43,000-year-old pebble in Spain. Illustration.

A member of staff of the Natural History Museum in Berne, Switzerland, checks the skeleton of an elephant on show at the museum's Skeleton Hall, September 16, 2005.

Elephant bone found at Spanish archaeological site may have marched on Rome with Hannibal - study

The finding represents the first elephant skeletal remains found to possibly confirm Hannibal’s historical march from Carthage to Italy during the Second Punic War.

FEBRUARY 7, 2026|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

a wild forest elephant and calves bathe in the marshes of in Bayanga Equatorial Forest, part of the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, the last refuge of forest elephants and Central African gorillas, in south-western Central African Republic.

Dung DNA reveals hidden population of endangered forest elephants, study finds

The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.

NOVEMBER 27, 2025|ByREUTERS

Ancient Roman site reveals early humans butchered straight-tusked elephant and crafted bone tools

Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm Middle Pleistocene phase.

OCTOBER 15, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic

Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia's remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle on July 23

JULY 28, 2020ByREUTERS

Skeleton of a mammoth, in the George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles, California

Elephants, hippos central to prehistoric human diet, Israeli scholars say

Two Israeli researchers have proposed a new theory about the prehistoric human diet and how its evolution led to significant cultural and technological developments.

JULY 7, 2020ByROSSELLA TERCATIN

Prof. Ran Barkai at the Middle Pleistocene elephant butchery site of La Polledrara, Italy.

Mystery deaths of 275 elephants in Botswana under investigation

Poaching has been ruled out as the carcasses were found intact.

JULY 2, 2020ByREUTERS

'The Elephant in the Sukkah’

The elephant is both inside and outside the sukkah. Which is similar to living with grief: You’re part of the world but at the same time, you’re not fully in it.

OCTOBER 10, 2019BySHERRI MANDEL