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We know about many animals that lived in the past from fossil remains. But with woolly mammoths, whole animals have been found. During the last Ice Age, mammoths died and were trapped in ice which preserved them. Some parts of the world are still cold and still hold the preserved mammoths. Why did certain animals become extinct? Scientists do not know for sure, but they have a few theories as explained in this article from National Geographic.
Mammoths are thought to have gone extinct about 11,—13, years ago. This is during what is called the late Pleistocene epoch. Take a look at this geological time scale.
Follow the history of the earth from about million years ago to the present. Don't forget to stop off at the Pleistocene Epoch. Follow a group of paleontologists as they travel to Wrangel Island in Siberia to hunt for mammoth bones and teeth. The bodies were so well preserved that CT scans found the mammoths died from choking on mud 40, years ago. The mud was like a "really thick batter that they got clogged in their trachea and they were unable to dislodge by coughing," said study co-author Daniel Fisher, the director of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.
Botanist Mikhail Ivanovich Adams recovered the first Siberian woolly mammoth fossils in Over a dozen soft-tissue specimens have been found since then.
Woolly mammoths were around 13 feet 4 meters tall and weighed around 6 tons 5. Some of the hairs on woolly mammoths could reach up to 3 feet 1 m long, according to National Geographic. Though woolly mammoths are known for living in the frigid planes of the Arctic, mammoths actually arrived there from a much warmer home. Research by a team from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, found that the ancestors of both the mammoth and Asian elephant originated in Africa 6.
Some frozen mammoths in the Arctic Circle have included muscle tissue, stomach contents, and blood, despite dying more than 10, years ago. This means that scientists know far more about the woolly mammoth than most extinct animals from prehistoric times. Contrary to how they are often depicted in artwork and other forms of media, woolly mammoths were not enormous creatures. An adult male woolly mammoth was usually between nine and eleven feet tall and weighed approximately six tons. While the woolly mammoth was large and powerful, the Steppe mammoth, its close relative, could grow to an even more intimidating 13 to 15 feet.
Though mammoths were a similar size to modern elephants, there were some key differences that served as adaptations to survive their cold habitat. The woolly mammoth took its name from its thick fur, which helped insulate their body and keep them warm. There were two layers of woolly mammoth hair.
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