Woolly mammoth
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The woolly mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning wi
Siegsdorfer Mammut
Georges Cuvier's 1796 comparison between the mandible of a woolly mammoth (bottom left and top right) and an Indian elephant (top left and bottom right)
Copy of an interpretation of the "Adams mammoth" carcass from around 1800, with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's handwriting
1930s illustration of the lectotype molars; the left one is now lost.
Mammoth
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A mammoth is a member of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch into the Holocene until about 4,000 years ago, with mammoth species at various times inhabiting
Woolly mammoth
…The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with…
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Molar of Mammuthus meridionalis
Molar of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Life restoration of a woolly mammoth at Royal BC Museum