The mammoth

📖 In short

The mammoth was a huge animal that lived long ago and looked a lot like an elephant. It had a long trunk and two very long curved tusks. Some, like the woolly mammoth, were covered in thick fur that protected them from the cold of the Ice Age.

🤩 Did you know?

Some mammoths may have been more than 4 meters tall at the shoulder.
Most mammoths died out about 10 thousand years ago.
The last mammoths lived on a small island only about 4000 years ago.
The mammoth is a relative of the Asian elephant.

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🌟 The snow elephant

The woolly mammoth lived in the cold lands of northern Europe, Asia and America, with long brown hair, small ears and a layer of fat under its skin to keep it warm.

🔍 Giant tusks

A mammoth's tusks were long and curved upwards, and it used them to push snow aside to reach the grass underneath, and to defend itself.

💡 Mammoths and people

Early people lived at the time of mammoths, hunting them for meat, making clothes from their skin and houses and tools from their bones and tusks, and painting them on cave walls.

🎯 A frozen mammoth

In the ice of Siberia, scientists have found frozen mammoths that were almost whole, with their fur and flesh, and learned a lot about how they looked and what they ate.