'African elephant' actually two separate species

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 19:30 in Biology & Nature

Everyone is taught that there are two species of elephants — the African and the Asian — but new research is suggesting this isn't the whole truth. The "African elephant" is actually two species, as evolutionarily different as lions and tigers are from one another.

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