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Stories about: mastodon

DNA Proved That There Are Two Elephant Species in Africa Genetic analysis was used for the first time to prove that the African savannah elephant and the smaller African forest elephant belong to two different species, and have been separated for several million years.The research involved scientists from Harvard Medical School, the University of Illinois, and the Universi... 22 December 2010 03:45 GMT The Longest Tusks Ever Found In modern day elephants, tusks rarely exceed 3.5 m (12 ft) in length in African male champions. In mammoths, this was the norm. But recently, in northern Greece, 250 mi (400 km) north of Athens, researchers have discovered two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed Europe over 2 million years ago and whi... 27 July 2007 03:01 GMT Elephant-Mammoth Evolution Explains Human Evolution Humans and elephants evolved in the same African dry savanna. That's why elephant fossils offer a clue on the type of environment in which our ancestors lived. An analysis of DNA painstakingly retrieved from an ancient mastodon tooth has further pushed back the time when mammoths split off from elephants. It app... 24 July 2007 04:55 GMT