Human ancestors in India butchered a 10-tonnes giant elephant 300,000 years ago
Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at the shoulder and weighed about 10 tonnes.
Statues of a group of mammoths in the North of Russia.(photo credit: Tanvel Denis. Via Shutterstock)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF