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7 Fun Facts

Mammoths

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The ears of a woolly mammoth were shorter than the modern elephant's ears.

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The Rouffignac cave in France has 158 depictions of mammoths, making up about 70% of the represented animals that date back to the Upper Paleolithic period.

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By the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago, pretty much all the world's mammoths had succumbed to climate change and predation by humans.

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Woolly mammoth is one of the best known prehistoric animals that lived during the Pleistocene.

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Botanist Mikhail Ivanovich Adams recovered the first Siberian woolly mammoth fossils in 1806.

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The Columbian mammoth reached 4 m (13 ft) tall at the shoulder, and it weighed up to 10 tonnes (20,000 lb, as much as 130 adult humans).

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Scientists were able to tell how old a woolly mammoth was by counting rings on their tusks.