Elephants have a family tree that stretches back to the time of the dinosaurs (F1 Online/Rex Features)
YOU wouldn’t have recognised Eritherium as an elephant when it was roaming . It weighed only 5 kilograms, and its canines were nothing like tusks. But detailed study of the newly discovered fossil’s teeth, jaws and skull shows it to be the oldest member yet found of the order , of which elephants are the only living survivors.
The new find may shed light on the origins of elephants and other mammals, says of the…
