Reposted by Lucie in the Bluesky
#CNRSnews 📰 Dwarf elephants, which lived a million years ago on Mediterranean islands, owed their size to morphological adaptation to their environment. With a nasal cavity resembling a single eye, these extinct animals may have inspired the myth of the Cyclops. 🐘
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Dwarf elephants and the Cyclopes