What was the largest species of prehistoric elephant?
What people don’t realize is that there are several species of mammoth, most of them about the same size as modern elephants… However, the largest of the mammoths was the Songhua River Mammoth, /Mammuthus sungari/, which reached 17 feet tall at the shoulders, 30 feet long, and estimated to weight about 12 tons. Elephants did not evolve from dinosaurs.. The common ancestor between elephants and dinosaurs would be atleast 50 million years before the dinosaurs evolved, when the primative mammal-like reptiles branched off. Indricotherium (also known as Paraceratherium and Baluchitherium) was more closely related to the rhinoceros. It was the largest land mammal ever to live, though, at 17 feet tall and 15 tons.
