Remember the good old days when three-metre tall elephants with straight tusks walked around us? You wouldn’t, unless you’re a secret time traveller from the Pleistocene era in the late Ice Age. While these elephants of the Stegodon ganesa species went extinct nearly 20,000 years ago, a forearm fossil of the species will find temporary abode at education platform India Study Centre’s upcoming experiential exhibition. Archaeologist Dr Prateek Chakraborty from Deccan College, Pune is just one of the experts urging Mumbaikars to come witness these rare markers of the planet’s history this weekend. 

Fossils of the extinct Indian hippopotamus. Pics Courtesy/Paleontology laboratory, deccan college