Mammoth

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Mammoth Fossil range: Early Pliocene to Holocene
Mount of a Columbian Mammoth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genus: Mammuthus Brookes, 1828
Species
Mammuthus africanavus African mammoth Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus imperator Imperial mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus trogontherii Steppe mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Southern mammoth Mammuthus subplanifrons South African mammoth Mammuthus primigenius Woolly mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorae Sardinian dwarf mammoth Mammuthus sungari Songhua River mammoth

A modern elephant, with almost no hair. They live in warm climates

A model of a mammoth, which lived in a cold climate. All living ones died out 4,500 years ago.

Mammoths were hairy elephants of the genus Mammuthus. They lived in Europe until 4,500 years ago. Then all of them were killed by hunters. When they were living in Europe, it was very cold there. There were lots of ice ages. An "age" here means "a very long period of time". In ice ages, the whole world was much colder than it is now. Big sheets of ice covered much of the ground. The time of ice ages the mammoths lived in is called the Pleistocene epoch. An epoch is an even longer time than an age and mammoth were hunted mostly by hunters for their teeth and flesh.

[change] See also

• Mastodon

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