Scientists have learned that relatives of elephants ate 2 million years ago – BBC

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An international team of paleontologists has analyzed the remains of the teeth of extinct relatives of elephants and learned than those ate 2 million years ago. With the details of the study can be available in the journal Quaternary International.

In the study, researchers analyzed 27 pieces of teeth of extinct relatives of elephants. As a result, the paleontologists found two extinct genus Proboscidea – Stegodon sinomastodony and living on the territory of modern China about 2 million years ago, ate mostly leaves. But relatives of elephants that lived in the territory of modern India, the diet was more varied. They ate not only the leaves but also the grass.

Stegodon – genus Proboscidea, extinct about 11 thousand years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.. During this period, around the world have also become extinct large species of mammals. It was at that time became extinct woolly mammoth, bolsherogy deer, and saber-toothed cats.

Earlier Stegodon considered the ancestors of the existing elephants and mammoths, but then scientists have found that they had no children.

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