Mammoth

Mammoth; Temporal range: 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, and were adapted to cold climate. They were killed off by hunters and climate change.

They lived in the Pliocene and Pleistocene. In the Pleistocene, northern Europe was covered with ice and tundra. There were a series of ice ages. The whole world was much colder than it is now.

Mammoth were hunted by early humans, who used spears, and cut them up with hand axes. Their frozen flesh has been analysed for its DNA sequence.^[1]^[2]^[3]