Photo: "Extinct" Pygmy Elephants Found Living on Borneo



A file photo shows a pygmy elephant with a radio collar on Borneo.

New research suggests the elephants may have descended from a population of elephants that originally lived on the island of Java in what is now Indonesia.

Photograph courtesy Cede Prudente


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