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The article discusses the 1.1 million-year-old stegodon tusk a team of Pakistani researchers claim to have discovered in Punjab province. Topics mentioned include a brief overview of stegodons, defined as distant cousins of modern elephants, the statement issued by Prof. Muhammad Akhtar, who led the research trip, and the rarity of a complete tusk, according to Dr. Gerrit Van Den Bergh, a palaeontologist at the University of Wollongong in Australia.