When I read the title to this I assumed that the new species of elephant would be one mistakenly thought of as a sub-species of the Asian elephant as I knew there were sub-species of that one. I was suprised to learn that the "new" species is actually African! Elephants were my favorite animal as a child and still remain my mom's favorite.
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The African bush elephant also used to be classified as a subspecies, so it will be interesting to see if further genetic tests show that maybe even the Asian subspecies could be their own species :)