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Extinct species

Woolly Mammoth

Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799)

Woolly Mammoth, photo by KKPCW
Photo: KKPCW·source·CC BY-SA 4.0

Taxonomy

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Proboscidea
family
Elephantidae
genus
Mammuthus
species
Mammuthus primigenius

Where and when

Range
Northern Eurasia and North America
Habitat
Cold, open mammoth-steppe grasslands and tundra.
Lived
Pleistocene · about 400,000 to 4,000 years ago

Facts

  • Type: Elephant-family herbivore

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  • Size: Roughly comparable in size to a modern elephant

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  • Cold adaptation: Dense hair, small ears and a short tail helped conserve heat

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  • Tusks: Tusks curved in a spiral rather than a simple arc

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  • Habitat: Cold, dry steppe-tundra grasslands

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  • Diet: Grazed on grasses and other steppe vegetation

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