namadicus were two distinguishable species inhabiting different regions. However, a Palaeoloxodon skull discovered in Turkmenistan breaks this mold. The Turkmen elephant was fully mature—as ...

Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the State Museum of Prehistory in ...