Since in my late childhood I switched for a few years from obsessing on dinosaurs to prehistoric mammals, including those often way-radical ancestors of the very few elephant species hanging on in tiny parcels of their former ranges today, I found this headline very interesting. The long extinct shovel-tusker elephants have always looked so prehistoric to me. John
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre6bk6i9-us-elephant-african/
one of many links:
http://www.ecotravel.co.za/Guides/Wildlife/Vertebrates/Mammals/Big_5/Elephant/Elephant_Evolution.htm
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