Elephants may have played surprising role in early human survival, study suggests

Elephants are widely adored by many people today — but a recent study suggests early humans were butchering them for survival nearly 2 million years ago.

A group of international researchers found what they describe as “the earliest direct evidence of proboscidean butchery,” including a newly identified elephant butchery site, according to an article published in the spring in the journal eLife.

Modern elephants are the only living proboscideans today — a group that once included woolly mammoths and mastodons. The animal bones belonged to Elephas recki, an extinct elephant species.

ANCIENT HUMANS WERE HUNTING AND EATING SHARKS 7,000 YEARS AGO…

Read the full article at FOXNEWS.COM