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A 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 about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths are distinguished from living elephants by their (typically large) spirally ...
- Woolly Mammoth
The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant...
- Mammoth Cloning
Model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal BC Museum. The...
- M. Columbi
The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct...
- M. Trogontherii
Mammuthus trogontherii, sometimes called the steppe mammoth,...
- Mammoth (Disambiguation)
Mammoth, a 2011 album by Swedish progressive rock band...
- Mammuthus Meridionalis
Mammuthus meridionalis, sometimes called the southern...
- M. Exilis
The pygmy mammoth or Channel Islands mammoth (Mammuthus...
- Rouffignac Cave
The Rouffignac cave, in the French commune of...
- Mammuthus Creticus
Mammuthus creticus, or the Cretan dwarf mammoth, is an...
- Woolly Mammoth
4 days ago · mammoth, (genus Mammuthus ), any member of an extinct group of elephants found as fossils in Pleistocene deposits over every continent except Australia and South America and in early Holocene deposits of North America. (The Pleistocene Epoch began 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago. The Holocene Epoch began 11,700 years ago and ...
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A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths are distinguished from living elephants by their spirally twisted tusks and in at least some later species, the development of numerous adaptions to living in cold ...
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One species, called woolly mammoths, roamed the cold tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America from about 300,000 years ago up until about 10,000 years ago. (But the last known group of woolly mammoths survived until about 1650 B.C.—that’s over a thousand years after the Pyramids at Giza were built!) These animals grazed on plants, using ...
The term mammoth may refer to a number of organisms, but is used here to describe the hairy proboscidean of the genus Mammuthus. They lived in Europe until 4,500 years ago, and were adapted to cold climate. They were killed off by hunters and climate change . They lived in the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
