Mongabay on MSN7d
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 ...
bdnews247y
Sri Lankan court case against gifting elephant to New Zealand shifts focus to conservation
Since the Sri Lankan elephant is special species known as Elephas maximus maximus and is part of the culture and religion of both the Buddhists and Hindus in the island, it is much sought after in ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1y
Evolution and taxonomy of Asian elephants
Further back in time, remains of Elephas hysudricus, the species considered ancestral to the living species Elephas maximus, have been identified from sites in Jordan and Israel, some of them as late ...
Hosted on MSN2mon
Mammoth quiz: Test your knowledge of the ice age beasts
The now-extinct creatures branched off from African elephants (Loxodonta) around 6 million years ago and split from their closest known relatives, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), about 440,000 ...