The rise and fall of elephants

(Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung) Earth-historical events such as ice ages or the shifting of continental plates are mainly responsible for the evolutionary success of proboscideans, but also for their decline. This is the main conclusion of a study published this week in Nature Ecology& Evolution by an international research team from Spain, Finland, Great Britain, Germany and Argentina with the participation of the Museum f ΓΌ r Naturkunde Berlin.
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