A new study reconfigures the elephant family tree, placing the giant extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus closer to the African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, than to the Asian elephant ...

This tree shows a revision to how scientists think straight-tusked elephants fit into elephant evolution: Straight-tusked elephants shared the most common ancestors with African forest elephants ...

A revised tree showing phylogenetic relationships among ... that the straight-tusked was actually sister to the African forest elephant, we started to realize that this study was basically ...

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling ...

The most comprehensive elephant genome study ever conducted, covering seven living and extinct species, is offering some surprises about the family tree ... African savanna elephants, two African ...

It's been used to reveal the evolutionary history and family trees of ... even than African elephants. Even more surprising was the discovery that, according to DNA, African forest elephants ...

A bull male forest elephant in Gabon. A new study published in the PLOS ONE shows that African forest elephants ... for navigating through the jungle trees. They eat mostly fruit, and researchers ...

“This reduces the competition for nutrients so that elephants help to create bigger trees faster.” One species stands out: the African forest elephant. By toppling small trees and shrubs and ...

The mitochondrial analysis revealed that a shared ancestor of P. antiquus and the African forest elephant lived sometime between 1.5 million and 3.5 million years ago. Their closest shared ...

“Forest elephants are among the most endangered elephant populations on the planet. Some conservation agencies don’t recognize African forest elephants as a distinct species, and these animals’ ...