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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.
10 de nov. de 2021 · Learn about the origin, diversity and threats of elephants, the largest land mammals on Earth. Discover how Wildlife SOS works to protect and conserve these amazing animals in India and beyond.
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).
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...
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.
8 de abr. de 2018 · DNA studies of fossils and living elephants show that they belong to a large and diverse family of extinct and extant species. Learn how ancient DNA changes everything we know about the evolution of elephants and their relatives.
