Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus.
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| Genus: | †Mammuthus |
Overview
The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks.
They lived from the Pliocene epoch into the Holocene until about 4,000 years ago, and various mammoth species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Mammoths are more closely related to living Asian elephants than African elephants.
Fossil works
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.[1][2] In the Pleistocene, northern Europe was covered with ice and tundra. There were a series of ice ages, which allowed the mammoths to spread across the land.
Mammoths were hunted by early humans, who used spears, and cut them up with hand axes. Their frozen flesh has been analysed for its DNA sequence.[3][4][5]
Mammoth Media
Mastodon Mammut americanum created in Adobe Photoshop.
Gomphotherium angustidens.
Stegodon ganesa, stegodont from Late Pliocene of Siwalik, India
Elephas africanus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - (white background)
Palaeoloxodon namadicus-bpk (cropped)
Indian elephant white background
Mammuthus trogontherii122DB
- Woolly mammoth model Royal BC Museum in Victoria.jpg
Life restoration of a woolly mammoth at Royal BC Museum
- Mammoth House (Replica).JPG
Reconstructed mammoth bone hut based on finds in Mezhyrich in Ukraine, exhibited in Japan
- Valley of Mexico in Pleistocene (9778653573).jpg
Diorama of a Paleoindian Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) hunting scene at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
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Related pages
References
- ↑ "Woolly Mammoth ('Mammuthus primigenius)". The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2012-03-07.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ Staff (2008). "Scientists sequence woolly-mammoth genome". Penn State Live. Penn State University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
- ↑ Fox, Maggie (2008). Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AI6DB20081119?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
Other websites
Media related to Mammuthus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Mammuthus at Wikispecies
- Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota Archived 2014-08-09 at the Wayback Machine