Ancient Elephants Quickly Shrank Into Dwarfs on the Island of Sicily, DNA Suggests

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  • June 22, 2021

Tens of thousands of years ago, so-called dwarf elephants inhabited the island of Sicily off the coast of Italy. Apparently, it didn’t take long for these elephants to shrink after their arrival on the island. New research suggests that the 10-ton behemoths that originally came to Sicily slimmed down quickly, losing…

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