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    The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia. It disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago) with a dwarfed race still living on Wrangel Island until roughly 1700 BC.

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    The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia. It disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago) with a dwarfed race still living on Wrangel Island until roughly 1700 BC.

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    WOOLLY MAMMOTH

    The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), also called the tundra mammoth, is a species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from northern North America and northern Eurasia with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia. They are perhaps the most well known species of mammoth. This mammoth species was first recorded in (possibly 150,000 years old) deposits of the second last glaciation in Eurasia. It was derived from the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus armeniacus). It disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago), with a dwarfed race still living on Wrangel Island until roughly 1700 BC.

    Where did the woolly mammoth live?


    The climate of the Pleistocene was characterized by glacial cycles repeated in that the continental glaciers were coming up to the parallel one 40 in some points. It is calculated that during the glacial maximum, 30 % of the surface of the Earth was covered of ice. In addition, a zone of permafrost was spreading was doing the south from the limit of the cap of ice, a few hundreds of km in North America and beyond in Eurasia. The annual everage temperature in the limits of the ice was of-6 C; in the limit of the permafrost, of 0 C.

    How long were the woolly mammoths tusks?


    The current elephants, the mammoths were provided with fangs formed by 2 top incisors. The fangs of the mammoths were bigger than those of his current relatives and his form also was different. These fangs were in the habit of measuring approximately 2 meters and a half and to weigh near 50 kilos. When they were born, the babies of mammoth did not have fangs. To 6 months of age they there were growing a few milk teeth of only 5 centimeters of length that was replaced with permanent fangs one year later. These permanent fangs were not stopping growing up to the death of the animal.

    Why did the last of the woolly mammoths die?

    Where have many of the mammoth remains bee found?

    El enlace de ke te pide d donde lo sakas weyyy le pones este: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth

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