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Two species of African Elephant

Posted on 21 December 2010

and then there were three...

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York scientists have helped to demonstrate that the African elephant is in fact two different species. In a collaboration with US and German scientists, Prof. Michi Hofreiter has shows that the Savanna and Forest elephants diverged at least three million years ago.

More details can be found on the BBC website.  The original article can be accessed at PLoS Biology.