After five years, hunting will now be allowed in Botswana, home to about a third of Africa’s savanna elephants. A German hunter kills an old bull elephant in Namibia.

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This 44,000­-year-­old hunting scene in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is one of the oldest surviving works of pictorial art. Discoveries of new hominins in Asia have led experts to revisit early human ...