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==Description==
==Description==
The average size of remains found indicates mammoths were as large as modern-day Asian elephants (''Elephas maximus''), approximately 9-10 feet at the shoulders and 4-6 tons in weight. The largest mammoth on record, ''M. imperator'' of North America, was 16 feet at the shoulders; of extinct mammals only the elephant-like ''[[Deinotherium]]'' and the hornless rhinoceros ''[[Indricotherium]]'' were larger.
The average size of remains found indicates mammoths were as large as modern-day Asian elephants (''Elephas maximus''), approximately 9–10 feet at the shoulders and 4-6 tons in weight. The largest mammoth on record, ''M. imperator'' of North America, was 16 feet at the shoulders; of extinct mammals only the elephant-like ''[[Deinotherium]]'' and the hornless rhinoceros ''[[Indricotherium]]'' were larger.
Their teeth were high-crowned molars, as opposed to their contemporaries the [[mastodon]]s, which had nipple-like features. Their tusks were long and curved inwards. Body hair, reddish-brown in woolly mammoths (''M. primigenius''), is known from the excellent cave paintings of Spain and France, as well as frozen individuals found in the Siberian and Alaskan permafrosts.
Their teeth were high-crowned molars, as opposed to their contemporaries the [[mastodon]]s, which had nipple-like features. Their tusks were long and curved inwards. Body hair, reddish-brown in woolly mammoths (''M. primigenius''), is known from the excellent cave paintings of Spain and France, as well as frozen individuals found in the Siberian and Alaskan permafrosts.