A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene until about 4,000 years ago, with mammoth species at various times inhabiting Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Mar 9, 2025 · Mammoth, any member of an extinct group of elephants found as fossils in Pleistocene and Holocene deposits on several continents. The woolly, Northern, or Siberian mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is by far the best-known of all mammoths and may have persisted as late as 4,300 years ago.

Aug 23, 2017 · The woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, is an extinct herbivore related to elephants who trudged across the steppe-tundras of Eurasia and North America from around 300,000 years ago until their numbers...

Dec 5, 2024 · For the most part, woolly mammoths vanished around 10,000 years ago. However, small herds survived in isolated areas around the globe, such as Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia. There, they thrived until around 1650 B.C.E.

The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America from southern Canada to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch.

Mammoth is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephants comprising the genus Mammuthus, with many species equipped with long, curved tusks, and in northern species, a covering of long hair.

Mar 24, 2025 · The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch, and was identified as an extinct species of elephant 1796 by French biologist Georges Cuvier.

Mar 24, 2025 · The genus mammoths, in latin Mammuthus, was a group of species, belonging to the family of elephants, entirely separated in taxonomy from the Mastodons and the genus family Mammutidae, although they sometimes shared the same envoronment.

Mammuthus meridionalis, sometimes called the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth native to Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene. Reaching a size exceeding modern elephants, unlike later Eurasian mammoth species, it was largely native to temperate climates and probably did not have a thick layer of fur.

Mammuthus primigenius, also known as the Woolly Mammoth, is an extinct prehistoric elephant which lived from 5 million years ago to about 4,500 years ago – from the Early Pliocene Period to the Early Holocene Period.