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In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows
On the morning of Jan. 5, a soldier deployed at the Chitwan National Park shot a wild elephant (Elephas maximus) after it ...
This monstrous mama laid the world’s largest egg
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
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Woolly mammoth de-extinction inches closer after elephant stem cell breakthrough
Scientists have made a stem cell breakthrough in elephants, which could mean researchers are one step closer to bringing back long-extinct woolly mammoths, the de-extinction company Colossal ...
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Animal Planet: Growing Up Safari (2010)
This collection's four episodes feature the first year in the life of baby elephant Maximus; a trio of zebras at a sanctuary; an orphaned giraffe named Kulula who joins a new herd; and the truth ...
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Evolution and taxonomy of Asian elephants
Finally, in collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Denmark, Italy, and elsewhere, we have properly defined, for the first time since Linnaeus named the species in 1758, a type specimen (lectotype) ...