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The Largest Elephant that Ever Existed
The largest elephant that ever lived was huge, taller than your two story Mayfair flat and almost as tall as the average telephone pole. Evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths, the Songhua River Mammoth roamed Northern China and Inner Mongolia during the Middle Pleistocene about 280,000 years ago. It survived into the Late Pleistocene but died out well before the end of the last ice age.
Continue reading...USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Crisis of conscience may be closer than it appears. Image from exfordy
Continue reading...Wildlife Video Roundup
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Environmental Graffiti is pleased to partner with Earth-Touch.com to bring you a brand new series. Earth-Touch seeks to create unique, beautiful, entertaining, and educational wildlife films. Their footage is captured in a way that is both environmentally
Continue reading...South Africa Brings Back Elephant Killing
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
All across Africa conservation groups are working to preserve populations of threatened elephants from threats like ivory poachers. An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Image by Rob Hooft. Recently, however, the South African government decided that the population in their country was sufficiently large to reinstate elephant [...]
Continue reading...Animal Rights Group Calls Zoo’s Elephant Pregnancy a Sex Crime
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Animal rights groups have called the pregnancy of an elephant in an Australian zoo the animal equivalent of a sex crime. Image by Herrick Thong Dee is an Asian elephant at Sydney’s Taronga zoo. The exotic animal is nine years old, still a juvenile in elephant terms. So [...]
Continue reading...Elephants Evolve Smaller Tusks Due to Poaching
Sunday, January 20, 2008
A species’ evolution has long been thought to take thousands of years to produce seemingly minor changes. It appears that in at least one case, however, evolution is occurring at what seems
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
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