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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 the African Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.
Its skull was high and domelike, with large downward-directed curved tusks. The woolly mammoth’s teeth were made up of alternating plates of enamel and a denture that often became worn down by constant back-to-front chewing motions.
A Michigan farmer reaped a startling harvest last week when he unearthed the partial skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth in his wheat field.
Illustration. Woolly mammoth skull, jaw, and teeth (to the right) on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney in December 2017, on loan from the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks where it normally resides.
Examining the tusk of a woolly mammoth that lived about 17,000 years ago, they uncovered details about its activities from birth to death.
Woolly Mammoth Skull The woolly mammoth is genetically related to the Asian Elephant, and not their African counterpart. These creatures appear in the prehistoric cave paintings discovered in several places in Europe including Britain, Spain, and France.
The Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, is an extinct herbivore related to elephants who trudged across the steppe-tundras of Eurasia and North America from around 300,000 years ago until their numbers seriously dropped from around 11,000 years ago.