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Scrape on skin

Learn how human healing compares to healing in other primates and mammals, whose fur may help their skin stitch itself together.  

Humans Take Longer to Heal Than Other Primates, Likely Thanks to Our Lack of Fur

Scientists studied stone tools, bone flakes and rare elephant remains at a middle Pleistocene site. Their findings shed light on the evolution of giant elephants and humans alike. (Image Credit: Chen Yu)

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus

Learn more about the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which disappeared from Europe between around 50,000 and 34,000 years ago.

This Elephant Lived in Europe for 700,000 Years — Could It Live There Today? 

A spruce tree with a recording unit attached, in the Dolomite mountains in Italy. (Image Credit: Monica Gagliano/Southern Cross University)

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