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Elephants may have started out all wet

Elephants may have evolved in the sea and used their trunks as snorkels.

References:

Gaeth, A.P., R.V. Short, and M.B. Renfree. 1999. The developing renal, reproductive, and respiratory systems of the African elephant suggest an aquatic ancestry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(May 11):5555.

Sources:

Ann P. Gaeth
University of Melbourne
Department of Zoology
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 21, May 22, 1999, p. 324. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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