Stock Photo - 19 May 2020, Lower Saxony, Schöningen: Björn Thümler (CDU), Minister of Science of Lower Saxony, and Christina Krafczyk, President of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (NLD), are sitting in the Research Museum Schöningen (Palaeon) presenting a skeleton of a Eurasian forest elephant. In addition to experts from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, archaeologists from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen were also involved in the excavation. According to the Ministry of Science, the huge animals lived in the region in the district of Helmstedt around 300,000 years ago. Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/dpa. - Schöningen/Lower Saxony/Germany