Elephants are the end of a 60m-year lineage – last of the megaherbivores

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/12/elephants-are-the-end-of-a-60-million-year-lineage-the-last-of-the-megaherbivores>

"Four-tuskers, hoe-tuskers, shovel-tuskers are all wiped out – now only a
fragment of this keystone species remains"

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***