No, the elephant certainly did NOT evolve from manatees. After the first common ancestor mutated, it eventually changed into the five kingdoms. Although sharing the same Kingdom, elephants are not related to manatees closely enough for there to be any mutation. Such a large mutation is not yet possible for organisms other than bacteria, such as AIDS.
They first appear in the geological record in the late Paleocene, a geologic epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago.
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60,000,000 years ago
They were cows who ate too many cheeseburgers and transfats!
The modern elephant is a descendant of prehistoric mammoths. For further information, refer to the "Animal Corner!" link, below.
The first elephants were pig sized creatures without tusks and trunks that lived in nothern Africa about 50 million years ago.
The answer is they changed by growing a tusk and trunk.
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well over time the land animals change a little and they need to be underwater to live unlike their land animal ancestors
Baby elephants are born with the same physical characteristics of adult elephants. As far as appearance goes, their trunks and ears grow larger, their bodies grow taller, and they gain weight. Male elephants grow tusks as they mature.
How have valleys change over time?How have valleys change over time?How have valleys change over time?
How did the dirction of the moon change over time? How did the dirction of the moon change over time?
A change over time is often referred to as a gradual change.
Yes, friends do and will change over time. Every person changes over time.
how can eutrophication change a lake over time
How does the hydrosphere change the earth over time
Islands change over time by erosion
No, acceleration is the change in speed over time.
Evolution is a change in species over time.