Search Results: Woolly Mammoth

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 seriously dropped from around 11,000...

Tusks of a woolly mammoth found in Alaska and usually residing at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, although when (and where) this picture was taken in December 2017 it was on loan at the Australian Museum in Sydney. It came with...

Woolly mammoth skull, jaw, and teeth (to the right) on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney in December 2017, on loan from the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks where it normally resides.

This carcass of a young woolly mammoth, nicknamed 'Yuka', is on display in Moscow after being found in an astonishingly good condition in Siberia. It died around 39,000 years ago and was between 6 and 11 years old.

Hunter-gatherer societies are – true to their astoundingly descriptive name – cultures in which human beings obtain their food by hunting, fishing, scavenging, and gathering wild plants and other edibles. Although there are still groups of...

An ice age is a period in which the earth's climate is colder than normal, with ice sheets capping the poles and glaciers dominating higher altitudes. Within an ice age, there are varying pulses of colder and warmer climatic conditions, known...

Artist's vision of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain. Mammoths were hunted by prehistoric humans.

Wooly Mammoth, as shown at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.

Cast of an engraving of a woolly mammoth on mammoth ivory made by early modern humans (Homo sapiens) at the rock shelter of La Madeleine, France, between c. 17,000- c. 11,000 years ago. It resides at the Collection de Paleontologie du Museum...

Replica of a mammoth-bone structure, shown at the "Frozon Woolly Mammoth Yuka Exhibit" in Yokoyama, Japan in Summer 2013. Upper Palaeolithic man is known to have created dwellings using mammoth bones.