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Why did mammoths have fur?

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the meat for food, the bones for materials like musical instruments, the skin as clothing and the tusks for tents

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It was hairy because it lived in the Ice Age and had to keep warm.

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Mammoths had fur because during the Ice Age it was really cold so mammoths had to have fur otherwise they would freeze.

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to dig up tree roots

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How did mammoths survive an ice age?

?Its fur?


Why did mammoths exist?

because people hunted the for the fur.


What do you have on mammoths?

they are big and fury and they use that fur for warmth


Did the mammoths beocme extinct because the ice age was over?

Mammoths became extinct from people hunting them for their tusks and fur.


How are mammoths and elephants different?

They are related to each other but the elephant doesnt have fur whereas the mamoth does and mammoths were roaming around when there were cavemen


Is a wooly mamoth a dinosaur?

No dinosaurs have scale like skin mammoths have fur


Where do mammoths originate from?

they were descendants from African elephants. when they traveled and adapted to cold places like Europe they started growing fur. that's how they got there name woolly mammoths.


Woolly mammoths adaptations to the cold?

they had long, thick fur to keep out the cold. Their tusks would help get prey.


What dida mamoths look like?

Mammoths look like modern day elephants but they had bigger ears and fur.


What is the shape of a mammoths body?

big i mean like 2 to 4 elephants long tusks and lots of fur (brown) :)


Do mamoths are hairy or non haired animals?

Mammoths lived in cold climates and had a thick long-haired fur covering their bodies.


What best describes how natural selection resulted in the wooly mammoth?

Mammoths stopped shedding. Eventually, they lost the ability to shed fur.