Massive Elephants Were Hunted By Neanderthals

Neanderthals killed gigantic elephants that weighed as much as eight vehicles each when they roamed what is now northern Europe some 125,000 years ago.

At almost 13 feet (4 meters) tall, these enormous creatures were the Pleistocene's largest land mammals. According to a new study¹ of the remains of over 70 of the now-extinct straight-tusked elephants discovered at a location in central Germany known as Neumark-Nord, close to the city of Halle, Neanderthals habitually hunted and methodically butchered t…