We sequenced a high-quality genome of the iconic elephants — the savanna and African elephant — and ... and another related to the common ancestor of forest and savannah elephants both from ...

The two apparent African elephant species appear to have evolved from a common ancestor between two and a half million and five million years ago—nearly as long ago as the human and chimpanzee ...

the University of Illinois and the University of York in England analyzed DNA samples from the two African elephants and the Asian elephant and from two extinct elephant ancestors, the woolly ...

Its ancestors, the Palaeoloxodon recki ... falconeri wasn't descended from or related to any of the African elephant species as expected. Its closest relative was actually the Asian elephant.

African forest-dwelling elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis ... elephants interbred recently and had a recent shared female ancestor can be explained as a result of the female elephant's social ...

Members of the species Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants ... researchers understand how early human ancestors were living. The 87 stone tools indicate ...

By 1978, African elephants would be protected ... So, yes, our understanding of extinction may have begun with elephants and their ancestors, but as we fight to save this species, they are ...

Other palaeontologists had also suggested that elephants and moles had aquatic ancestors. Myoglobin was just reiterating the story that the bones were starting to tell. African elephant crossing ...

Wild African elephants may address each other using ... including potentially our own ancestors, to develop this ability to associate new sounds with new things. That sort of could be what led ...