Was Early Elephant An Amphibian?

Scientists studying two very ancient elephants surmised that they were probably semi-aquatic mammals, eating freshwater plants.

“Molecular data from modern elephants share a common ancestry with the sirenians - aquatic sea cows and dugongs,” said Alexander Liu of Oxford University, co-author of the report.

“Elephants may have an ancestor which was amphibious in its mode of life and we wanted to know if Moeritherium or Barytherium (existing 37 million years ago) was this semi-aquatic ancient relative.”
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