Researchers found elephants help sustain a hidden network of insects, with their loss triggering biodiversity declines across ecosystems.

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A 15-year field experiment in Kenya reveals that dung beetles—and the ecosystem services they provide—collapse when elephants disappear, offering evidence of coextinction in the wild.