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Elephants belong to the elephantipae family and to the probosicided order. That includes sea cows, elephant and Hyrxes. Elephants can grow up to 13 feet tall and can weigh up to 13,000 pounds. early elephants were very different in there sizes apperance back then compared to what we see of them today. It started with a species known as ''moeitherium'' and were heavily about 3 feet tall . They didn't have trunks like mordern day elephants. Had abroud , flexible upper lip like a tapits for grasping aquatic vegetations. Then came the byatheriume the most important feature that was changed from would be the small tusks That were on the upper and lower jaw. This was changed because the need to be able to have the shearing action to crop plants. Then about 26 millone years ago came the ''numidotherium'' with much slender body shape and not much changed until then. The animals grew longer with limbs. They became the digotheriume they looked like mordern elephants ecxapt it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw. The spieces that is a closest relative to mordern elephants is mammoths. Then they got exctict now we have the mordern elephants.