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Learn how elephants evolved over millions of years from their earliest ancestors that resembled hippos or manatees. Discover the features and adaptations of different elephant species, such as tusks, trunks, hair, and size.
28 de jul. de 2021 · Learn how proboscideans, the order of animals that includes elephants, diversified and became extinct over 60 million years. Explore the fossil evidence, climate changes and human impact on the giant herbivores.
30 de dic. de 2017 · Conoce la historia evolutiva de los elefantes, desde sus orígenes comunes con los mamuts y los manatíes hasta las dos especies que existen hoy. Descubre cómo se relacionan los elefantes con los damanes y cómo se están estudiando los genes de los mamuts.
8 de jul. de 2019 · Learn how elephants evolved from tiny, mouse-sized mammals after the dinosaurs went extinct. Discover the differences between mammoths and mastodons, and see photos of prehistoric proboscids.
16 de sept. de 2016 · The straight-tusked elephants aren’t the oldest ancient genomes — that record belongs to the genome from a horse bone, between 560,000 and 780,000 years old, found frozen in the Canadian Arctic —...
9 de nov. de 2018 · Poaching for ivory has driven many elephants to develop a rare genetic trait that makes them tuskless, increasing their survival chances. Learn how tusklessness is spreading among female elephants in Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania.
22 de dic. de 2005 · Modern elephants and woolly mammoths share a common ancestor that lived about 6 million years ago. Exactly how and when the species split over time, though, hasn’t been clear. Now, researchers are using modern techniques to piece together ancient elephant history.
