Unique elephant cemetery uncovered near Rome, Italy in January, 2003. [Getty Images]

ITALY - JANUARY 01: On the site of a former river where a large number of animals got trapped in mud at their watering point 300,000 years ago, a prehistoric elephant cemetery has been uncovered in La Polledrara di Cecanibio in Rome, Italy in January, 2003. Professor Anna Paola Anzidei who heads the digging examines a perfectly preserved elephant head. (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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