Fossil tracks may reveal an ancient elephant nursery

Preserved footprints of newborn pachyderms are roughly the size of drink coaster

ancient elephant footprint

Some footprints (one shown) of ancient elephant calves at a site in southern Spain were so clearly preserved that the imprints of toes could be seen (left side of print).

C. Neto de Carvalho et al/Scientific Reports 2021

Fossilized footprints found on a beach in southern Spain betray what may have been a nursery for an extinct species of elephant.