This is the mammoth migration route.
Before Bernard Buigues was led to
the buried mammoth, he was shown its giant
tusks by the Dolgan tribesmen who had found it.
The Woolly Mammoth
Woolly Mammoths (scientific name Mammuthus primigenius) are extinct herbivorous
mammals.
These mammoths lived in the tundras of Asia, Europe, and North America.
They are closely related
to modern-day Indian elephants.
When they lived: Woolly Mammoths
lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene epoch (over 10,000
years ago), millions of years after
the dinosaurs went extinct. People existed during the time of the mammoths.
Cave paintings of the woolly mammoth
have been found in France and Spain.
Anatomy and tusks: Woolly Mammoths
had long, dense, dark black hair and underfur, long, curved tusks, a
fatty hump, a long proboscis (nose),
and large ears. They were about 11.5 feet (3.5 m) long, 9.5 feet (2.9 m)
tall
at the shoulder and weighed about
3 tons (2.75 tonnes). The tusks were used for protection, in interspecies
dominance, and for digging in the
snow of the ice ages for grass and other food. (Classification: Family
Elephantidae)
Extinction: The Woolly Mammoth probably
went extinct because it couldn't adapt to the combined pressures of
the climatic warming that occured
when the Ice Age ended, together with predation from humans.