Stock Photo - 19 May 2020, Lower Saxony, Schöningen: Nicholas Conard (l), Professor at the University of Tübingen, and Ivo Verheijen, PhD student at the University of Tübingen, show parts of a skeleton of a Eurasian forest elephant in the Research Museum Schöningen (Palaeon). In addition to experts from the State Office for the Preservation of Historical 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