Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Elephants, the largest animals to walk on land today, are fascinating creatures. These great, intelligent beasts, with massive specialised teeth projecting from their faces and noses modified into muscular prehensile appendages, almost seem like made-up creatures when you describe them. How on Earth could such marvellously strange animals ever evolve?
Find out more about Evolution - a 5-part series from the BBC: bbcearth.com/shows/evolution
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:44 - Origins and Early Evolution
10:49 - The Deinotheres
12:57 - The First Elephantiformes
14:52 - Mastodons (Mammutidae)
20:30 - Elephantida
21:01 - Choerolophodontidae
22:33 - Amebelodontidae
24:02 - The 'Gomphotheres'
29:27 - Stegodontidae
32:14 - The First Elephantids
34:18 - Loxodonta (African Elephants)
36:00 - Palaeoloxodon (Straight-Tusked Elephant)
39:32 - Mammoths
42:19 - Elephas (Asian Elephants)
44:18 - Talking to Chris Packham
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1kDjLvqL76mKYCRJ6nWjgUC4cGKPhb8ReBmFG4kLrXgI/edit?usp=sharing
Elephants, the largest animals to walk on land today, are fascinating creatures. These great, intelligent beasts, with massive specialised teeth projecting from their faces and noses modified into muscular prehensile appendages, almost seem like made-up creatures when you describe them. How on Earth could such marvellously strange animals ever evolve?
Find out more about Evolution - a 5-part series from the BBC: bbcearth.com/shows/evolution
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:44 - Origins and Early Evolution
10:49 - The Deinotheres
12:57 - The First Elephantiformes
14:52 - Mastodons (Mammutidae)
20:30 - Elephantida
21:01 - Choerolophodontidae
22:33 - Amebelodontidae
24:02 - The 'Gomphotheres'
29:27 - Stegodontidae
32:14 - The First Elephantids
34:18 - Loxodonta (African Elephants)
36:00 - Palaeoloxodon (Straight-Tusked Elephant)
39:32 - Mammoths
42:19 - Elephas (Asian Elephants)
44:18 - Talking to Chris Packham
Sources:
docs.google.com/document/d/1kDjLvqL76mKYCRJ6nWjgUC4cGKPhb8ReBmFG4kLrXgI/edit?usp=sharing
