As today, ancient elephants lived in Africa and South Asia ... The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to ...

During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 ... Afterward, they can compare the ancient DNA to the genetics of modern-day elephants across Africa. Even with the tusks, it is difficult ...

This particular skirmish involved war elephants. The University of Illinois recounts the scene: Ptolemy had 73 African war elephants and Antiochus had 102 Asian war elephants, according to ...

The findings suggest that Polybius had it wrong, and the African elephants got spooked for some other reason than the overpowering size of the Asian elephants. In other ancient documents ...

Bloated and eerily upright the large adult elephant was still standing ... Here in Garamba it seems more like war than conservation. The South African ex-military advisers brought in to train ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient ... size of today’s African elephants.

and “A Training School for Elephants” is an accessible primer on African colonial history and Leopold’s depredations. Her contemporary journey through Tanzania is more troubling, though.

The area where the bone was found, located in the heart of Córdoba, may have played host to a large-scale battle involving war elephants ... say in which ancient conflict the elephant may ...

In India, the process of training an elephant has changed little since ancient times ... The fearsome 6,000 war elephants of the Nanda Army led to mutiny among Alexander the Great’s battle ...