![[An image of an African elephant’s skeleton and muscles are projected onto a life-size model in an exhibit that highlights new science on proboscideans.]](https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/files/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-25-231028-83679c92c095d430.png)
For millions of years, proboscideans — a group that includes mammoths, mastodons, and elephants — traversed diverse landscapes, shaping ecosystems as they went. However, around 11,700 years ago, human hunting and the waning ice age drastically reduced their numbers to just three species — the Asian elephant, the African forest elephant, and the African savanna elephant, as stated by Iqbal from ScienceNews.org. These giants are now endangered, and the impact of losing them extends far beyond what meets the eye…
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World Elephant Day
World Elephant Day, coming up on Monday, August 12th, was established in 2012 as a way to celebrate these wonderful mammals and promote conservation efforts. There are two main genera alive today: the African elephant (Loxodonta) and the Asian elephant (Elephas). The African elephant genus is split between two species the African bush elephant (Loxodonta… Read more »