How shifting climates may have shaped early elephants' trunks

ScienceDaily
Nov 28, 2023, 1:23 pm181 pts
Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks. A study of the evolution of longirostrine gomphotheres, an ancestor of the modern day elephant, suggests moving into open-land grazing helped develop their coiling and grasping trunks.

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