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Illustration of elephant feeding ecology in the Late Pleistocene of southern China. Elephas (left) incoporates more graze in its diet; whereas Stegodon (right) is an obligate browser of fresh shoots and leaves. Image credit: Nicola Heath.

Paleontologists Reconstruct Diets of Ancient Elephant Relatives

Jul 28, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists headed by Prof. Mark Purnell of the University of Leicester, UK, and Dr. Yuan Wang from the Institute of Vertebrate...