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Woolly '''Mammoths''' were a family of [[extinction|extinct]] furred [[elephant]]s that roamed the [[Northern Hemisphere]] up until the last [[Ice Age]]. The mammoth is believed to have used its enormous tusks to root for vegetation beneath the snow.
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'''Mammoths''' (Russian: мамонт ''mamont'') are several extinct species of elephant belonging to the genus ''Mammuthus'', characterized by large size, long curving tusks, and in a few examples, extensive body hair.  All members of the genus were  extinct by 2000 B.C., the estimated date of the last known mammoths on Wrangel Island, Russia.
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==Description==
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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.
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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.
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==Species==
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*African mammoth (''Mammuthus africanavus'') 
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*Columbian mammoth (''Mammuthus columbi'')
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*Imperial mammoth (''Mammuthus imperator'') 
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*Jeffersonian mammoth (''Mammuthus jeffersonii'') 
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*Pygmy mammoth (''Mammuthus exilis'') 
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*Sardinian dwarf mammoth (''Mammuthus lamarmorae'') 
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*Songhua River mammoth (''Mammuthus sungari'')
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*South African mammoth (''Mammuthus subplanifrons'')
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*Southern mammoth (''Mammuthus meridionalis'')
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*Steppe mammoth (''Mammuthus trogontherii'') 
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*Woolly mammoth (''Mammuthus primigenius'')
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The frozen corpses of several mammoths have been found in the [[Siberia]]n [[permafrost]]; in medieval times there was a substantial trade in mammoth [[ivory]] from the region.
      
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