Elephant evolution,artwork. The two modern-day elephant species are Loxodonta (top,the African elephant) and Elephas (centre,the Asian elephant). At bottom is Anancus,a species that is not an ancestor of modern-day elephants,but is part of the elephant evolutionary tree. Anancus evolved in the Miocene (24 to 5 million years ago) and became extinct in the Pliocene (5 to 2 million years ago) | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Hks, Gary |
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