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Description: | Woolly mammoths lived throughout the northern hemisphere in arctic and sub-arctic conditions. They had a thick coat of fur similar to modern muskoxen. Mammoths went extinct relatively recently. In Asia this happened about 9000 years ago but the last population, living on an Arctic island, survived until about 2000 years ago. The extinction is linked both to hunting and to the warming climate at the end of the last ice age, which altered the vegetation that the mammoths fed on. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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