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Yes, elephants are close relatives to the mammoth, having diverged from mammoths only 6 million years ago. The closest relative to the mammoths is the Asian elephant.
What else can I help you with?
Are elephants related to woolly mammoths?
yes
Did woolly mammoths resemble elephants or bears?
Bears
To which modern animal does woolly mammoths seem most closely related?
Woolly mammoths look very much like modern elephants. They are more closely related to Asian elephants than to African elephants.
What animals descend from Woolly Mammoth?
There are no living descendants of woolly mammoths. African elephants are a separate branch, and Asian elephants are a near relative. While there are other mammoth species, these are currently thought to have evolved alongside the woolly mammoth from species such as the steppe mammoth.
Did dinosaur eat woolly mammoth?
No. Wooly Mammoths, like elephants, were herbivores.
What would woolly mammoths eat?
Woolly mammoths, like modern elephants, were grazers. They ate grasses, sedges, herbs, mosses, and some leaves.
What is another name for a elephant?
One of the prehistoric elephants was the Woolly Mammoth. It had tusk, a trunk, only different by the woolly fur, not skin.
Why do you think scientists would choose to use the egg of an elephant to try to grow a woolly mammoth?
Elephants are mammals, they do not lay eggs. If elephants are descendants of the woolly mammoth, or they share the same genetic ancestor, scientists may consider playing with the DNA in an elephant egg cell to bring out the traits of the woolly mammoth.
Are Woolly Mammoths about the same size of elephants are today?
yes they are they both are 13to14 feet tall
Do indian elephants eat wolly mammoths?
No, ew. Woolly mammoths don't even exist anymore. Asian elephants are herbivores anyway, and so were mammoths.
Are African elephants larger than woolly mammoths?
Acording to what i have heard it is said that the woolly mammoth would be about twice the size of an African elephant.
The woolly mammoth is an ancestor to what?
Wooly mammoths have no modern day direct descendants, but they were closely related to the ancestors of modern elephants.
