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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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the meat for food, the bones for materials like musical instruments, the skin as clothing and the tusks for tents
What did the mammoth use its tusks for?
Their tusks are teeth; the second set of incisors become the tusks. They are used for digging for food, for fighting during mating season, and for defense against predators.
Is the wooly mammoth coming back to life?
My opinion would be no it would be cruel as mammoths have 3 layers of hair and therefore in most climates of the world a wholly mammoth would not be able to adapt.
But another argument people have is that it would be great to clone a mammoth a scientific leap! as you would be able to see it in its natural wildlife and allot more questions would be able to be answered as allot cannot be by just examing fossils like : why did they go extinct was it diseases from humans? and also their mating rituals but for this to happen an Asian elephant would have to carry a 20,000 year old mammoth which some say would not be fair!
Also people fear as an episode of Jurassic Park could come true! what would be next on the list the Dinosaur?
How did the woolly mammoth die out?
The reason the mammoth went extinct is cause when the ice age melted the climate began to heat up and it got really hot and the started to die when it got to hot it caused it to have a heat stroke
When was the first woolly mammoth found?
It's unknown when the first woolly mammoth was found. Various ancient peoples have found bones of mammoths throughout history, with a trade in tusks coming out of Siberia likely dating back extremely far, possibly to when humans and mammoths lived alongside in the arctic.
Mammoths were not recognized scientifically as different from elephants until 1796, when Georges Cuvier argued they were a new species of extinct ancient elephant
Why did the wooly mammoth die?
The demise of the woolly mammoth is still widely debated by researchers. Many, however, believe extinction was due to geological changes in soil and food that no longer allowed these large animals to obtain the vast amounts of nutrients they needed to survive. Evidence of osteoporosis and other severe bone diseases in mammoth remains have led scientists to this conclusion.
They were or are herbivorous- as are Horses. I once saw what was billed as a living Baby Wooly Mammoth on the back of a not-too-large pickup truck at of all things a Church Flea Market in about l974. It was claimed the creature weighed 225 lbs, same as an average man, and top end for most dogs. I once saw a Bull-Mastiff named Battlewagon that weighed in at about 225.
How did a woolly mammoth move?
Mammoth blood contains special cold adaptations that helped to survive in the Arctic. The oxygen carrying molecules in the blood of woolly mammoths was adapted to survive extreme cold. Mammoths had more than woolly coats to protect them from the frigid conditions of their sub-zero stomping grounds. The extinct beasts had a form of antifreeze blood.
How long ago did the woolly mammoth exist?
They became extinct approximately 10,000 BC. they died because a comet exploded in the earths atmosphere in north America and that caused fires to spreed and killing everything it could of been the end of earth says national geographic!
The phrehistoric cavemen is also a big reason to why the woolly mammoth became extinct...
What was the average size of a Woolly Mammoth?
Woolly mammoths were about 9 to 12 feet tall. That isn't noticeably taller than Asiatic elephants, but the woolly mammoths did weigh more (up to 8 tons). There was also a dwarf variety of woolly mammoth that lived on Wrangel Island. They measured 6 to 7.5 feet tall.
What kind of fossil is a woolly mammoth?
They had excessive amounts of fur.They also did not lay eggs.
Some researchers have doubts that mammoths lived in the cold climate zones. Recently, Russian scientists have received strong evidence of woolly mammoths' frost-resistance - they possessed sebaceous glands. The trip to visit mammoths was paid by the International Scientific and Technical Center, and the researchers' search for sebaceous glands was supported by the Federal Target Scientific and Technical Program entitled "Investigations and Developments for Science and Engineering Priority Guidelines in 2002-2006".
Specialists of the VECTOR State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology and the Zoological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) have discovered sebaceous glands in the skin of woolly mammoths, the scientific community unsuccessfully looking for sebaceous glands for more than a hundred years. As sebaceous glands are an instrument of adaptation to cold climate, the discovery by Russian scientists serves a convincing argument in the dispute whether the mammoths did live in the frost.
Did the woolly mammoth use its trunk for water?
Elephants are good swimmers, so there's no reason to think that a wooly mammoth couldn't swim. The water would be very cold, though.
What is the scientific name of the wooly mammoth?
Dr.Gary Egglesborough
He named the woolly mammoth post-studying the animal in the 1900s
When was the first woolly jumper made?
- The first woolly jumper was made in 1989.
- He was called john pieces.
- He was 30 years old.
- He live in England.
- He died in 2005.
- He died when he was 91.
- He married 8 girls.
