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Description: | Woolly mammoths became extinct about 10 000 years ago and are symbolic of the Ice Ages in the Quaternary period. They are well known from Stone Age (Palaeolithic) cave paintings and the discovery of complete bodies in frozen ground in Siberia. They probably used their long tusks to scrape away snow and ice from the plants they fed on. Mammoth are often regarded as being extremely large but the biggest were about the same size as a fully grown African bull elephant. The distinctive ridges on the teeth were used to grind down the tough grasses that they 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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