Woolly mammoth
Cenozoic Era Herbivore Creature Type
Woolly Mammoth
Scientific Name: "Woolly Mammoth"
Local Name: Mammoth
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πΏHerbivore
Physical Characteristics
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Size3m
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Weight6000kg
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Height3.4m
Discovery
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Discovery Year1799Year
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DiscovererJohann Friedrich Blumenbach
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Discovery LocationSiberia and the rest of the world
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Mammoths (woolly mammoths) are relatives of elephants that lived in the northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene-Holocene (about 400,000 to 4,000 years ago) and are not dinosaurs. They lived much later than dinosaurs and adapted to ice age conditions with thick fur and long tusks. They coexisted with humans and became extinct about 4,000 years ago due to hunting and climate change. They were found frozen in the Siberian permafrost and have been studied down to their DNA.