According to a new analysis, the skull belongs to a mysterious type of elephant called Palaeoloxodon. […] Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized ...

Members of the species 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.

An imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering the Kashmir Valley, 400 thousand years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer traversing by. In the distance ...