First ever DNA recovered from extinct miniature elephants of Sicily
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Over the past few hundreds of thousands of years Sicily was home to two different miniature elephants.
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Original Title: 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.