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Giant and Mini Elephant

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  • 26-06-2009 12:50pm
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    Galvasean
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    Scientists in Indonesia claim they have unearthed the 200,000-year-old skeleton of a giant elephant that stood more than 13 feet (4 meters) tall

    It also weighed ten tons, about twice the weight of a modern elephant and rivaling the biggest mammoths! :eek:

    Click here for full article and video.


    In a related story a 60million year old ancestor of modern elephants that was the size of a rabbit has been discovered in Morocco.
    A newfound 60-million-year-old creature called Eritherium azzouzorum—the oldest known elephant ancestor—bolsters the case that whole new orders of mammals were already around less than 6 million years after global catastrophe ended the age of reptiles some 65.5 million years ago

    What is significant about this discovery is that it shows that life was very quick to bounce back after the mass extinction which took out the giant dinosaurs.
    Full article here.
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