Bone from "sizeable beast" could be ancient battle elephant

The bone of a "sizeable" elephant that may have taken part in combat thousands of years ago has been uncovered in southern Spain. Archaeologists found the carpal bone of an "elephant of large proportions" during excavations in the city of Córdoba on a hill known as Los Quemados, researchers told…

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