wooly mammoths
Hairy prehistoric pachyderms
Wooly mammoths were large, elephant-like mammals that lived during the Ice Age, distinguished by their thick coats of shaggy hair and long curved tusks.
They went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago, though isolated populations survived longer on Arctic islands.
The wooly mammoth has become iconic in discussions of extinction and de-extinction—scientists have proposed using preserved DNA to bring them back.
Also spelled woolly mammoths.
- tuskExtended external tooth
- shaggy coatLong, messy animal fur
- cave artPrehistoric images on stone
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
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wooly mammothsinvasive species
Harmful non-native organism
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