Ancient giant elephant graveyard proves colossal creatures were REAL and roamed Earth 300,000 years ago, say scientists

AN ANCIENT elephant graveyard has revealed that the colossal creatures roamed Earth 300,000-years-ago.

Scientists person discovered the remains of 1 of the largest mammals to ever locomotion the Earth astatine a quarry successful Pampore, India.

A elephantine skull from a straight-tusked elephant known arsenic Palaeoloxodon was dug retired from the quarry successful 2000, followed by a cache of fossils and chromatic tools utilized by past humans.

At the time, researchers were capable to find that the decease of the colossal beast occurred 300,000-years-ago aft breaks successful the skull person scientists a uncommon accidental to look inside.

Scientists were capable to find that the elephantine elephant was sick astatine the clip of its death.

Dr Simon Parfitt, a quality improvement researcher astatine the Natural History Museum said: "When we peered into the damaged section, we could spot that thing was unusual astir the wrong of the skull.

"Elephant skulls are afloat of aerial spaces to marque the caput lighter, but the bony on the sinus cavities had grown successful an abnormal, spongy structure.

“We judge this indicates the idiosyncratic was suffering from sinusitis, perchance owed to an corruption spreading from different portion of the assemblage oregon from a terrible respiratory disease.

"Either way, it whitethorn person contributed to its death."

However, the beingness of chromatic tools and breached elephant bones recovered successful the quarry suggested that humans mightiness person had thing to bash with the beasts death.

Now scientists from crossed the globe person travel unneurotic to portion unneurotic the earliest grounds of human's eating elephants.

According to a survey successful the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, humans were feasting connected the mammoth-sized creatures betwixt 300,000-400,000 years ago.

Dr Parfitt said it offered caller insights aft skeletal fragments recovered astatine the tract suggested that past humans were smashing the bones with dense rocks to get to the nutritious marrow inside.

He said: "Discoveries similar these person brought the portion to the attraction of archaeologists, who are present looking much intimately for caller butchery sites.

"Given the size of these animals, and the comparatively tiny size of quality groups, it’s improbable they would person been capable to afloat butcher this elephant earlier it started to rot.

"This means they astir apt went for the premier cuts of nutrient alternatively than stripping the carcass, truthful there’s overmuch little accidental of immoderate marks being near down connected the bone."

It comes aft a perfectly preserved sabre-toothed tiger cub was discovered frozen heavy successful Siberian ice.

The extinct beast was recovered implicit with its fur and crisp claws intact arsenic the remarkable discovery is believed to beryllium implicit 35,000 years old.

The pristine remains of the three-week-old kitten were archetypal recovered successful 2020 successful the Russian Republic of Sakha, on the Badyarikha River.

Its full caput and the beforehand broadside of its precocious assemblage was discovered wholly enclosed wrong a artifact of ice, according to a insubstantial published in Scientific Reports.

Incredible images amusement the cub's furry caput with adjacent its whiskers inactive pointing proudly retired from nether its nose.

Radiocarbon dating suggests the mummified large feline is from the Late Pleistocene period.

Frozen remains of mammals from astir this clip are said to beryllium "very rare," the researchers claim.

The kitten's paws, including its pads and claws were each recovered good preserved connected the beforehand paws with the claws said to beryllium crisp and powerfully curved.

Six pairs of ribs were besides disposable with further fragments indicating astatine slightest 12 pairs existed.

Meanwhile, the world's tiniest dinosaur egg from a whopping 80 cardinal years agone has besides been discovered "perfectly preserved".

The miraculous find dates each the mode backmost to the Late Cretacerous play and offers unbelievable insights into the reproductive habits of dinosaurs.

Six near-perfect ovum fossils were gouged from a well-preserved nest bizarrely recovered astatine a operation tract successful Ganzhou, China - with them being conscionable the size of a 50p.

Another past find saw miners stumble upon a preserved woolly rhino which experts anticipation to bring backmost to life.

The magnificent 10,000-year-old beast was recovered by gobsmacked workers portion digging for gold.

There are besides hopes of bringing specified extinct animals - including woolly mammoths - backmost to beingness by utilizing DNA recovered connected specified carcasses preserved successful the ice.