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New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

East and central Africa, where most elephants once resided, underwent serious losses over this period due to ivory poaching. Reversing the downward trend is difficult. Ivory poaching has driven ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much ...

[Courtesy of KWS] Dida, one of Africa's largest female elephants with very long tusks, has died. Dida died aged between 60 and 65 years at the Tsavo East National Park in Taita Taveta County ...