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New fossil evidence reveals more about how African bush elephants’ ancient ancestors moved about a South African landscape. Gunter Nuyts/Shutterstock

Fossil tracks and trunk marks reveal signs of ancient elephants on South Africa’s coast

by Charles Helm Dec 21, 2021Dec 21, 2021

Each elephant tracksite we identify evokes a sense of wonder at how the tracks – and in this case, the trunk-drag impression – survived, against the odds, and are now amenable to our interpretation, as we try to read the story the rocks tell us.

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