Recent findings show that Africa is home not to one, as was common knowledge, but two species of elephants. For many years, some zoologists have suspected that this might be the case, as African elephants tend to be stockier than the savannah elephants and also have straighter tusks and rounder ears. But the theory was never really confirmed. Researchers at the Natural History Museum in Paris tested the deoxyribosenucleic acid (DNA) from mitochondria