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Elephantidae is a family of large, herbivorous proboscidean mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are large terrestrial mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct.
16 de set. de 2016 · The genome of a mysterious ancient fossil has shaken up the elephant family tree. Modern elephants are classified into three species: the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus) and two...
- Ewen Callaway
- 2016
Elephants belong to the family Elephantidae, the sole remaining family within the order Proboscidea. Their closest extant relatives are the sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and the hyraxes, with which they share the clade Paenungulata within the superorder Afrotheria. Elephants and sirenians are further grouped in the clade Tethytheria.
13 de jun. de 2017 · Fossil DNA shows that straight-tusked elephants, extinct relatives of Asian elephants, were more closely related to African forest elephants. This challenges the previous view of elephant evolution and raises questions about their skeletal features.
Now scientists have used DNA from an extinct animal to better understand living species: the elephants.
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 (Elephas maximus), once thought to be its closest living relative.
June 6 2017, by Diana Yates. A new study reconfigures the elephant family tree, placing the giant extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus closer to the African forest elephant, Loxodonta...
