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  2. Woolly mammoth - Wikipedia

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    Woolly mammoths sustained themselves on plant food, mainly grasses and sedges, which were supplemented with herbaceous plants, flowering plants, shrubs, mosses, and tree matter. The composition and exact varieties differed from location to location. Woolly mammoths needed a varied diet to support their growth, like modern elephants.

  3. Mammoth - Wikipedia

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    However, woolly mammoths were considerably smaller, only about as large as modern African bush elephants with males around 2.80–3.15 m (9 ft 2.2 in – 10 ft 4.0 in) high at the shoulder, and 4.5–6 tonnes (9,900–13,200 lb) in weight on average, [30] with the largest recorded individuals being around 3.5 m (11.5 ft) tall and 8.2 tonnes ...

  4. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

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    These extinctions were staggered over tens of thousands of years, spanning from around 50,000 years Before Present (BP) to around 10,000 years BP, with temperate adapted species like the straight-tusked elephant and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros generally going extinct earlier than cold adapted species like the woolly mammoth and woolly ...

  5. Woolly mammoths ‘evolved smaller ears and fluffier coats over ...

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    Researchers compared the genomes of the giant creatures with modern day elephants to find out what made woolly mammoths unique. Woolly mammoths ‘evolved smaller ears and fluffier coats over ...

  6. Researchers say the last woolly mammoths died out due to thirst

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    Many know that woolly mammoths, a distinct cousin of modern elephants, lived during the Ice Age ... using whatever resources were available. "As the other lakes dried up, the animals congregated ...

  7. Columbian mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America from southern Canada to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch. The Columbian mammoth descended from Eurasian steppe mammoths that colonised North America during the Early Pleistocene around 1.5–1.3 million years ago, and later experienced hybridisation with the woolly mammoth lineage.

  8. Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth's last mammoths

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    About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth's woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world's charismatic Ice Age animals.

  9. List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene

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    Columbian mammoth: Mammuthus columbi: Southern and Western United States, and northern Mexico Most recent remains dated to 8080-7700 BCE. [4] Pygmy mammoth: Mammuthus exilis: Santa Rosae island, California Most recent remains dated to 9130-9030 BCE. [4] Woolly mammoth: Mammuthus primigenius: Northern Eurasia and North America