First published at 22:29 UTC on November 6th, 2017.
The woolly mammoth of the ice age
Mammuthus primigenius is more popularly known as the woolly mammoth that today is regarded as the poster animal for the ice age,? ?a colloquial term for the Pleistocene period which saw a series of glaciations acro…
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The woolly mammoth of the ice age
Mammuthus primigenius is more popularly known as the woolly mammoth that today is regarded as the poster animal for the ice age,? ?a colloquial term for the Pleistocene period which saw a series of glaciations across the upper latitudes of the Northern hemisphere and an overall? ?reduction in global temperatures.? ?Sometimes also known as the tundra mammoth,? ?the woolly mammoth is but one species of many mammoths that inhabited northern hemisphere ecosystems,? ?but the large and often exceptional level of preservation of some remains have revealed more about this prehistoric animal than many others.
The woolly mammoth like all mammoths is closely related to elephants,? ?but features a number of special adaptations that helped it survive in the much colder latitudes of the northern hemisphere.? ?
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