Mammoth (marina prieto)
Woolly Mammoths were large elephants that lived from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. Cave paintings of the Woolly Mammoth have been found in France and Spain. Woolly Mammoths are closely related to the indian Elephan.These animals are members of the elephant family and close relatives of modern elephants.
Anatomy and Diet: Woolly Mammoths had long, black, shaggy fur and two huge, curving tusks. The tusks were used for protection and for digging in the snow for grass and other food. Woolly Mammoths were about 11.5 feet (3.5 m) long, 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall and weighed about 3 tons (2.75 tonnes).
They had to adapt to cold, for this reason they had long her (which insulated its body and kept it warm), its long tusks (which it used to get food through the snow and ice, and also may have been used as protection), its small ears (which minimized heat loss), and its relatively large size (which also minimized heat loss).
Most populations of the woolly mammoth in North America and Eurasia died out at the end of the last Ica Age. About 12,000 years ago, warmer, wetter weather began to take hold. Rising sea levels swamped the coastal regions.
Its possible that the extintion of the mammoth was for diferent things:
-the climate change
-overhunting
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