New Elephant Family Tree (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

New Elephant Family Tree

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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, which was once thought to be its closest living relative.

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Graphic by Asier Larramendi Eskorza and Julie McMahon

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