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The article reports that an ancient tusk was unearthed in Pakistan offering clues towards history of the stegodon and evolution of modern elephants, and views of scientist Muhammad Akhtar on use of the uranium/lead radioactive dating technique to estimate age of the tusk.

The article discusses a report by Guangbiao Wei and colleagues in the January 8, 2015 online issue of the journal "Quaternary International" describing a hand ax found in a cave in South Asia in 2002, crafted from the bones of an extinct, elephant-like creature, called a stegodon, instead of stone.

Informs on the discovery in Sichuan Province, China, of a fossil of a tooth from a stegodon orientalis, a rare animal said to have lived in the mid-Pleistocene epoch. Evidence for the 'glacier boulder' theory.

Focuses on the Chinese archaeological exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that featured Stegodon fossils. Highlights of the exhibition; Discovery of elephant fossils in 1973; Reason for the extinction of the elephants.