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Bookmark or Share- Woolly Mammoths Roamed Far and Wide Just Like Living ElephantsIf woolly mammoths typically roamed over large carpets of tundra, then the world’s shift to a warmer, wetter climate may have broken up the habitat they relied upon.
- About Mammoths - University of California Museum of PaleontologyAbout Mammoths. Skeletal mount of a Columbian mammoth at The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Photo by Dave Smith, UCMP. Mammoths were first described by German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenback in 1799. He gave the name Elephas primigenius to elephant-like bones that had been found in Europe.
- Woolly mammoth | Size, Adaptations, & Facts | Britannicawoolly mammoth, (Mammuthus primigenius), extinct species of elephant found in fossil deposits of the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs (from about 2.6 million years ago to the present) in Europe, northern Asia, and North America. The woolly mammoth was known for its large size, fur, and imposing tusks.
- Woolly Mammoth - World History EncyclopediaThe Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, is an extinct herbivore related to elephants who trudged across the steppe-tundras of Eurasia and North America from around 300,000 years ago until their numbers seriously dropped from around 11,000 years ago.
- Mammoth - WikipediaA mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene until about 4,000 years ago, with mammoth species at various times inhabiting Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
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