GIANT STRAIGHT-TUSKED ELEPHANT

About:

• About 800,000 years ago, a giant straight-tusked elephant migrated out of Africa and spread across Europe and Asia.
  
  
• Marked by a huge head, the elephant divided into many species, such as Palaeoloxodon antiquus (in Europe), Palaeoloxodon namadicus (India) and Palaeoloxodon naumanni (Japan).
  
  
• One key point of confusion was the different sizes of skull crests in fossils found in Europe. The new study has concluded that there was a single European species.
  
  
• On the other hand, fossils found in Asia and East Africa represent distinct species that evolved.