AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elephants adapt to their habitat by having a large body size, regulating their temperature in the hot sun, digging up water with their tusks, and grasping branches and other things with their trunks. Elephants are some of the largest land animals on Earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -By comparing all these genomes, the team found that the forest and savanna elephants diverged into separate species between 2.6 and 5.6 million years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -It took 60 million years for elephants to evolve their long tusks and trunks. The earliest ancestors of elephants looked nothing like elephants. As time went by, the bodies of the animals became larger, the trunks of the animals became longer, and the teeth of the animals turned into tusks.

Detailed explanation-4: -A group of African forest elephants walks through a forest clearing at Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic. African and Asian elephants diverged from a common ancestor around 6 million years ago¹ and are two distinct species that differ in many physical attributes².