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Name: Woolly Mammoth
Scientific Name: Mammuthus primigenius

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The tundra and much of the taiga – the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes – were once a grassland ecosystem known as the “mammoth steppe.”

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There were living mammoths on the planet just 3,600 years ago, at the same time that King Tut ruled ancient Egypt.

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Mammoths were herbivores — they ate plants. More specifically, they were grazers — they ate grass.

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Although little is really known about the reproduction of woolly mammoths, it is quite likely that in a similar way to elephants, the female woolly mammoth would have given birth to a single woolly mammoth calf after a nearly year long (maybe even longer) gestation period.

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Traits that could have made them evolve/survive

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Traits that could have made them evolve/survive

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Some of the obvious adaptations of the woolly mammoth to its cold, snowy environment were its long hair (which insulated its body and kept it warm), its long tusks (which it used to get food through the snow and ice, and also may have been used as protection), its small ears (which minimized heat loss), and its relatively large size (which also minimized heat loss).

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They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,000 years ago.

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Climate change, not humans, was reason woolly mammoths went extinct, research suggests. ... From there, they determined melting icebergs killed off the woolly mammoths. When the icebergs melted, vegetation – the primary food source for the animals – became too wet, thus wiping the giant creatures off the face of the planet.