A bull Deinotherium bozasi, a distant relative of the elephant, roams the rainforests of Africa, equipped with two downward-curving tusks on its lower jaw. This African species of the Deinotherium genus is known to have lived between 7.3 million and 781,000 years ago, which would have made it a contemporary of the early hominin apes that would evolve into human beings. The two tusks on its lower jaw might have helped it strip down bark or branches for feeding.