PaleontologyeLifePeer-reviewed
Longer mandible or nose? Co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms
Chunxiao Li, Tao Deng, Yang Wang…·Shiqi Wang
This study investigates the co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms, finding that feeding function shifted from the mandible to the trunk, enabling proboscideans to expand into new ecological niches.
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