Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations

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Mar 11, 2025, 2:45 pm98 pts
Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for tracking the movements of large herbivores across landscapes, even for animals now extinct, such as mastodons and mammoths.

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Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations

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