Meet the Woolly Mammoth. the Woolly Mammoth Was Alive During the Ice Age

Meet the Woolly Mammoth. The Woolly Mammoth was alive during the Ice Age. What did Woolly Mammoth look like?

The Woolly Mammoth was a similar size to the modern African Bush Elephant. The coat of the Woolly Mammoth covered its entire body and ranged from dark brown to light brown in color. They had a thick layer of fat that was up to 10 cm (3.9 in) thick. This helped to keep them warm.

The tusks of the Woolly Mammoth were very long and curved inwards – in some individuals the tips crossed.

Females were smaller and lighter than the males. They had shorter tusks In cave paintings the Woolly Mammoth is depicted with a high, domed head, a single hump over the shoulders and a sloping back. Like modern elephants, the Woolly Mammoth appears to have been social. It’s likely that females lived in family groups with their young, whilst males either lived alone or formed small ‘bachelor’ groups.

The mammoth is believed to have used its massive tusks to fight, to defend itself from predators and to forage. What did Woolly Mammoths eat?

The Woolly Mammoth was a herbivore whose diet mainly consisted of grasses and plant material including shrubs, twigs, tree bark, mosses, leaves, flowers, fruit, berries and nuts.

The animal used its 4 large molars to grind up tough vegetation. The impressive tusks would have been used as tools to dig up plants, remove snow to uncover vegetation, strip bark off trees and break ice to access drinking water. Woolly Mammoth predators

Both young Woolly Mammoths and sickly adults were vulnerable to predation by animals such as wolves, cave hyenas as well as saber-toothed cats and other large felines.

Early humans may have begun to hunt Woolly Mammoths as early as 45,000 years ago. Woolly Mammoth extinction It is believed that the Woolly Mammoth disappeared either because of climate change (which led to a shrinkage of its habitat) or because humans hunted it to extinction – or as a result of both.

DNA collected from frozen Woolly Mammoth specimens is being used in attempts to bring the species – or at least some of its characteristics – back to life.

Some scientists believe that creating an elephant-mammoth hybrid will be possible in the next few years.

This pristine mammoth tusk was frozen for thousands of years in a Siberian riverbed before being discovered.

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