[Rockhounds] Fossil Tracks Reveal an Ancient Elephant Nursery in Spain

[Paul]

Fossil tracks may reveal an ancient elephant nursery

Preserved footprints of newborn pachyderms are

roughly the size of drink coaster, Science News, Sid Perkins

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-tracks-footprints-ancient-elephant-nursery

Fossilized Footprints Reveal an Ancient Elephant Nursery in Spain

Straight-tusked elephants as young as two months old trampled

around the area with their mothers, Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian

Magazine, September 20, 2021

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fossilized-footprints-reveal-an-ancient-elephant-nursery-in-spain-180978720/

The open access papers are:

Neto de Carvalho, C., Belaústegui, Z., Toscano, A., Muñiz, F., Belo, J.,

Galán, J.M., Gómez, P., Cáceres, L.M., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., Cunha, P.P.

and Cachão, M., 2021. First tracks of newborn straight-tusked elephants

(Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Scientific Reports, 11(1), pp.1-16.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96754-1

Mayoral, E., Díaz-Martínez, I., Duveau, J., Santos, A., Ramírez, A.R., 
Morales,

J.A., Morales, L.A. and Díaz-Delgado, R., 2021. Tracking late Pleistocene

Neandertals on the Iberian coast. Scientific reports, 11(1), pp.1-12.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8

Yours,

Paul H.