Sicily – See Animals Wild

January 24, 2022June 28, 2022

First ever DNA extracted from remains of elephant on Sicily!

While Sicily is the largest island lying in the Mediterranean, it is less than 10,000 square miles, and as such it is quite amazing to find that Sicily played host to two different species of elephant in the last few hundred thousand years.

This image shows quite how small the smallest dwarf elephant was

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