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   ocr: EXAMPLES OF EVOLUTION . LEPHANTS evolved from pig-sized E animals that lived in North Africa Deinotherium 50 million years ago (mya). Early elephants spread from Africa, evolving trunks, tusks, and large bodies. Some were ancestors ofthe two living species ofelephants, the African and Woolly the Asian, that evolved around 2 mya. mammoth Deinotherium lived in Asia and Africa 2-25 mya. Woolly mammoths, the direct ancestors of modern elephants, Asian elephant lived around the Arctic Circle between 5 million and 10,000 years ago; thick hair insulated them against the cold. Elephant relatives ADein ...