Elephants use air-transmitted sound to communicate with one another but also rely on ground vibrations to cover even larger distances. A new study focusing on elephants’ middle ear structure showed ...

Elephant middle ear bones vibrated most effectively at a frequency of about 400 Hz, whereas human bones did so at around 1.2 kHz. Below those frequencies, elephants' stapes - a small middle-ear bone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

Through the ground, elephants send and receive vibrations, a unique way of communicating that surpasses traditional airborne sounds. Their anatomy, featuring sizable middle ear components and eardrums ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Hannibal's use of elephants during the Second Punic War is one of the most iconic images of ancient warfare, but evidence of these battle elephants ...

Archaeologists have identified Europe's oldest elephant bone tool from England that reveals the advanced toolmaking skills of ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...