MARVELOUS MAMMOTHS By Peyton Smith

INTRODUCING THE MAMMOTHMammoths lived long ago on the “mammoth steppe” and were close ancestors to the African Elephant. They are the world most interesting animals to learn about because they lived so long ago during the ice age!

A woolly mammoth

The ice age

WHAT IS A MAMMOTH? A mammoth is an ancestor to the African Elephant. The mammoths is like a furry elephant in the arctic. They are full of fur and eat grass with their trunks.

A mammoth statue

Arctic Grass

Asian Elephant

WHERE DO MAMMOTHS LIVE? Mammoths live in the ice age with cavemen, furry

hogs, antelope, and some lakes and grass lands. Mammoths were hunted for food and shelter. They mainly lived on glaciers, ice patches or

anything that was consisted with ice and/or snow.

The ice age

DO MAMMOTHS HAVE PECULIAR BODY FEATURES? Mammoths have many peculiar body features. They have big feet, humps on their backs, weigh a TON,

they also have tusks to fight with and trunks to eat with and show affection.

Tusks

Hump on back

Thick fur

WHEN DID MAMMOTHS COME TO OUR PLANET? Mammoths came to our planet thousands of years ago

during the ice age. They lived in Siberia by the rivers and lakes that was

frozen.

DID MAMMOTHS HAVE INTERESTING LIVES IN THE ICE AGE? Yes, the mammoths did have very interesting lives. Surviving was hard for the mammoth because, they were

hunted by cave men and they weighed so much that the ice melted and some got trapped.

A dead mammoth that was caught in an iceberg.

DID MAMMOTHS HAVE LOTS OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES? Theses are all the names for mammoths or close

ancestors of the mammoth. Mammothus Primigenius Mammonteus Primigenius Mammothus Subplanifrons Mammothus Trogontherii Elephas Primigenius Elephas Boreus Mammothus Boreus

MammothusPrimigenius

MammonteusPrimigenius

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CAN MAMMOTHS LIVE AGAIN? Yes, mammoths can live again, because their ancestors

are still alive today. One of the close mammoth ancestors is the Asian

Elephant.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Chorlton, Widsor. Woolly Mammoth Life, Death, and

Rediscovery. New York: Scholastic Inc.,2001.Print. “Woolly mammoth.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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