Elephants were once accomplished divers

  • By EAL
  • June 19, 2013

An international team of scientists from various universities (Manitoba, Alaska, Liverpool) studying how mammals evolved to stay underwater found that the ancestors of modern day elephants were actually aquatic.

Can you imagine a time with elephants and whales swimming together? And without us!
What a wonderful time and place…

Photo credits: Gregory Colbert, Ashes & Snow

EAL - Elephants were once divers - Photo credits Gregory Colbert

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