Why Elephants are Evolutionary Oddities

Elephants are easily some of our most easily recognisable creatures, but the fact that they are so familiar has distracted us from just how strange they really are. A lineage containing some of the world’s largest ever land mammals as well as some of the strangest appendages known to man – elephants are a lineage deserving of a second glance.

Seeing our elephants in a different light might help protect them from the fate faced by too many of their long-lost relatives.

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