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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.
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 —...
Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).
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.
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.
13 de jun. de 2017 · Fossil DNA shows that straight-tusked elephants, extinct relatives of Asian elephants, were more closely related to African forest elephants. This challenges the previous view of elephant evolution and raises questions about their skeletal features.
