TIL scientists recovered DNA from the extinct miniature elephant on Sicily. Two different species of miniature elephants evolved separately on the same island. The smallest one was a meter tall and weighed about 300 kgs. The other was about 2 meters and 1,000 kgs.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/june/first-dna-recovered-from-extinct-miniature-elephants-sicily.html
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First ever DNA recovered from extinct miniature elephants of Sicily
Over the past few hundreds of thousands of years Sicily was home to two different miniature elephants.www.nhm.ac.uk
