A team of wildlife experts spotted a rare pygmy elephant with “saber-tooth”-like tusks in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island, according to the Sabah Wildlife Department.
This elephant, inhabiting tropical rainforest in north Borneo (east Sabah and extreme north Kalimantan), was long thought to be identical to the Asian elephant and descended from a captive population.
In 2003, DNA comparison revealed them to be probably a new subspecies. Pygmy elephants live in both Africa and Asia.
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