How the Elephant Got Its Trunk? First It Needed a Long Mandible
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A study of the evolution of longirostrine gomphotheres, an ancestor of the modern day elephant, suggests moving into open-land grazing helped develop their coiling and grasping trunks.
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How the elephant got his trunk. An illustration from Rudyard
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