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

A tourist was moved to tears when his lifelong dream of seeing wild elephants finally came true in Thailand. Guided by a tour leader, he and his partner encountered a roaming elephant family just ahead—an emotional moment that left him overwhelmed. 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 HUNT

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