Straight-tusked elephant

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is a species of elephant that inhabited Europe during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–50,000 years before present). It was formerly thought to be closely related to the living Asian elephant; however, in 2016, DNA sequence analysis showed that its closest extant relative is actually the African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, and in fact it is closer to L. cyclotis than L. cyclotis is to the African bush elephant, L. africana.[1][2]