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The effort to regrow a woolly mammoth from the edited genes of an Asian elephant took a petri dish-sized move toward reality. De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences announced they can now ...
Researchers compared the genomes of the giant creatures with modern day elephants to find out what made woolly mammoths unique. Woolly mammoths ‘evolved smaller ears and fluffier coats over ...
Wrangel Island has a severe polar climate (Köppen ET). The region is blanketed by dry and cold Arctic air masses for most of the year. Warmer and more humid air can reach the island from the south-east during summer. Dry and heated air from Siberia comes to the island periodically. Wrangel Island is influenced by both the Arctic and Pacific ...
The genus contains the largest known species of elephants, over 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the shoulders and over 13 tonnes (29,000 lb) in weight, representing among the largest land mammals ever, including the African Palaeoloxodon recki, the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and the South Asian Palaeoloxodon namadicus.
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Proboscidea (/ ˌ p r oʊ b ə ˈ s ɪ d i ə /; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close ...
According to Graham, modern elephants drink between 70 and 200 liters of water a day. Scientists believe mammoths behaved similarly. The water eventually ran out.
Articles relating to the Elephantidae, a family of large, herbivorous mammals collectively called elephants and mammoths. These are terrestrial large mammals with a snout modified into a trunk and teeth modified into tusks. Most genera and species in the family are extinct.