Where was the first woolly mammoth found?

Answer 1

Eurasia and North America (Woolly Mammoth that is). Good places are gravel pits and... the bottom of the North Sea! The North Sea was a plain during the last ice age with lots of animals, such as ancient bison, giant elk, reindeer, woolly rhino, horses, lions, hyena and mammoths. Fishing boats catch many fossils in their nets, with more than a thousand mammoth teeth alone each year!

Answer 2

When woolly mammoth still existed, long before the first written records, prehistoric humans lived in the same areas as woolly mammoths. After their extinction, people native to Siberia still took the ivory from frozen carcasses for trade. However, they thought that this ivory came from the remains of a giant mole.

In 1728, Hans Sloane, a British scientist, examined some of these ancient tusks and also teeth. He realized that the bones didn't belong to a mole, but rather an Arctic elephant.

For a while, it was assumed that these elephants had lived there before the Biblical flood, in which Noah used the Arc, and that Siberia must have been tropical when these elephants lived there. French scientist Georges Cuvier realized in 1796 that the remains were from an extinct species of elephant. Note that extinction wasn't a widely excepted theory at that time. Soon, however, the woolly mammoth was given its first scientific name, Elaphus primigenius. However, it was soon realized that it didn't belong to the same genus as modern elephants, and so the woolly mammoth was given its second and final scientific name, Mammuthus primigenius.

Answer 3

Woolly mammoths lived mostly in Eurasia, although their remains have been found in Alaska. However, another type of mammoth called the Columbian mammoth lived in most of North America. Their fossils have been found as far south as Honduras.

Answer 4

Frozen carcasses have been found in Siberia and Alaska. Fossils have also been found in China and Spain.

Answer 5

the first wooly mammoth was found in Berezovka River

Answer 6

The Woolly Mammoth walked almost all over the place where snow or cold weather was. The didn't usually stay somewhere where it was warm, because of their woolly fur.