A fossilised footprint of an elephant calf Neto de Carvalho et al.
Greater than 100,000 years in the past, elephants raised their newborns among the many dunes of the traditional Spanish coast. Fossil footprints counsel no less than 14 calves, belonging to the extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), have been a part of a prehistoric nursery – and that they have been hunted by Neanderthals.
Carlos Neto de Carvalho on the Naturtejo UNESCO World Geopark in Portugal and his colleagues recognized the tracks on a broad fossil floor referred to as the Matalascañas Trampled Floor (MTS) in Huelva, Spain, that comprises the footsteps …
