Mammoth construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Among many now extinct clades, the mastodon is only a distant relative of the mammoths, and part of the separate Mammutidae family, which diverged 25 million years before the mammoths evolved. The following cladogram shows the placement
Extinct animals from the Isle of Man and immobilise, any sheep which was pointed out" (W. Walter Gill). The following extract is believed to have been written by a Ms. A. L. J. Gosset; It continues ... It continues ... Manx horses also became extinct c. 1820–1830. Of them Thomas Quayle said, The Manx pig were known to the locals as 'purrs'. They had completely died long before Thomas Quayle wrote this about them; Four species of birds that once bred on the Isle of Man have gone extinct locally, of these the great auk is extinct worldwide. N.B. None of these animals were solely native to