Joel Kontinen
“Elephants have
deeply rooted tusks protruding from their mouths that grow continuously. These
tusks are actually enormous teeth that give the pachyderms an evolutionary
advantage when digging, lifting objects, stripping bark of trees and
protecting themselves.”
Some evolutionists
say: “The earliest known tusks are found in Dicynodonts, a group of
stocky, pig-like herbivores that lived 270 million years ago and had unique
pointed beaks with protruding teeth on either side.”
They say: “Members
of this clade with true tusks were also missing several teeth. Researchers
theorized that it may have been more energetically favorable to develop
tusks that continuously grow, rather than replacing teeth that may have fallen
out. different species, different populations over time.”
Source:
How 10 animals evolved their iconic
features | Live Science 6 January.
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