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Elephants' Trunks Were Snorkels? Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Did elephants' trunks evolve to function as snorkels? This suggestion might be outlandish but new fossils make a strong case that extinct relatives of elephants were aquatic. Speculation about a watery stage in the evolution of the world's largest land mammal has continued on and off for years, but now palaeontologists have solid evidence that relatives of elephants lived in freshwater swamps or rivers near the coast of what is now Egypt. (source: newscientist.com)
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