Animal names are usually nothing special—bear, elephant, cat… you get the idea. Straightforward, familiar, and honestly a little boring. But some scientists clearly didn’t want to keep it that way, ...

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A family of four, including a baby and a toddler, has been identified as four of the six people killed when a herd of elephants stampeded last week.

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone discovered in Spain may be the first direct evidence confirming Hannibal’s use of war elephants in his campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War.

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.