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Woolly Mammoth

Woolly Mammoths were elephant like creatures that lived in the arctic regions of our planet until they were hunted to extinction by the Inuit peoples. They had shaggy brown fur, and long tusks. Questions in this category should include the mammoth's characteristics, features, and former habitat.

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Did cavemen ride woolly mammoths?

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Proof exists that the mammoth was a human food source, so they had to have existed together at one time.

What family does the woolly mammoth belong to?

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Woolly mammoths belinged to the Elephantidae family.

Did the wooly mammoth live at the beginning of ice age?

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Most woolly mammoths died out by 8000 BC. The last surviving mammoths were a population of dwarf mammoths on Wrangel Island, and these died out 4,500 years ago, around 2,500 BC.

What is a female mammoth called?

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A male dinosaur is called a bull

I thought it was a buck

How wide are mammoths?

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hiphop

When did mammoths walk on earth?

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They first appeared at about 4.78 million BC

They were extinct at about 8,000BC

The dinosaurs were not with them.

So Ice Age 3 was wrong!

Why did mammoths have tusks?

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There are a few reasons why dinosaurs have horns.

Defense. They have to be able to defend themselves in case of an attack.

To look fierce and vicious to scare off predators.

To make other dinosaurs be scared to keep them away from themselves.

Helpful tools when roaming or moving something.

There are other things, but those are the things I know.

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Current theories are that dinosaurs used them for aggressive displays to ward off competitors or to attract mates, much as animals with horns do in modern times. This is a convergent evolutionary theory.

However, in days past, it was believed that the horns were probably used for defense or attacking. This is considered highly unlikely because of the lack of serious damage to fossil remains that would be caused by this behavior.

When did the last mammoth die?

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The majority of mammoths went extinct by the end of the last ice, however a population of dwarf mammoth persisted on Wrangel Island in the Arctic ocean off the coast of northern Siberia until around 5,000 years ago.

What age did the mammoths roamed the earth?

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Excluding a population of dwarf woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island (which lasted until 3,700 years ago), woolly mammoths became extinct 10,000 years ago.

The species of mammoth native to North America was the Columbian mammoth. One skeleton of a Columbian mammoth has been dated to being less than 8,000 years old.

Why do mammoths not decompose?

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Woolly mammoths were adapted to living in freezing conditions towards the northern most area of earth, for example where Siberia now is. As the conditions have remained freezing since the ice age, mammoths that have been buried under snow since they were dead have not decomposed. This is because as the stable freezing cold for millions of years slows down the animation of bacteria. They too are frozen in the process, and decomposition occurs because bacteria in the internal organs of the animal, and in the atmosphere multiply without the control of an immune system and devour the body leaving a soup like waste product. And of course flies, and other such life form that feed on carcasses are unable to get to it because it is buried deep in ice. This, combined with having the effect of bacteria eliminated from the remains leaves an almost perfectly preserved mummified mammoth.

Why were woolly mammoths so tall?

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Not all dinosaurs had large feet. Some dinosaurs were small and didn't have big feet.

Why did Mammoth Mountain form?

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Mammoth Mountain Got its name from a mining company called Mammoth Mining Co.

Do mammoths exist?

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While in theory possible, due to the large amount of well preserved mammoth remains in the arctic tundra that has lead to a wealth of genetic information, there are still many roadblocks. Mammoth genetics has reached the point where one can in fact download a mammoth genome from researchers, and researchers have inserted mammoth genes into elephant cells in a lab, but one of the primary problems is the elephant (and presumed mammoth) reproductive system. The elephant reproductive system is complicated enough that in vitro elephants are problematic leading to conservation concerns, in vitro mammoths or elephant-mammoth hybrids could be impossible.

How long are a wooly mammoths tusks?

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Up to 15.67 feet long longer than the average elephants trunk

When was the first woolly mammoth fossil found?

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It was found in 1969 in southern America by the scientist Neil Diggins.

What is the life cycle of a woolly mammoth?

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I dont know but i need to, and this seemed like a better answer than the one before this one.