Illustration of ancient humans scavenging a mammoth carcass
Jesús Gamarra
A mammoth that died about 1.2 million years ago became a meal for both ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats, an analysis of its bones has revealed.
Southern mammoths (Mammuthus meridionalis) were larger than today’s elephants and roamed Eurasia during the Pleistocene.
The skeleton is one of only a handful throughout the world with evidence of cut marks that old. It was excavated about 20 years ago from a fossil-rich site in Orce, Spain, but…
