Mammoth

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mammoth : any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

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Mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. They were members of the family Elephantidae, which also contains the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors. — Wikipedia

Mammoth (Encyclopædia Britannica)

About Mammoths (University of California Museum of Paleontology)
Brief introduction to the Mammoth (Gennady Baryshnikov, Illinois State Museum)

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Talks about Mammoth (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)

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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). Body fossils and trace fossils are the principal types of evidence about ancient life, and geochemical evidence has helped to decipher the evolution of life before there were organisms large enough to leave body fossils. Estimating the dates of these remains is essential but difficult: sometimes adjacent rock layers allow radiometric dating, which provides absolute dates that are accurate to within 0.5%, but more often paleontologists have to rely on relative dating by solving the “jigsaw puzzles” of biostratigraphy (arrangement of rock layers from youngest to oldest). — Wikipedia

Paleontology (Encyclopædia Britannica)

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Preservation

Black Hills & Badlands (YouTube Channel)
Black Hills & Badlands (Official Website)

Mammoth Site (Hot Springs, South Dakota)

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Mammoths (Science Trek)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
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Mammoths (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Mammoths (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
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Earliest Americans specialized in megafauna...
on July 1, 2026 at 11:20 pm
New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and they targeted these megafauna consistently from Alaska to South America.
Were Clovis foragers in Late Pleistocene North...
on July 1, 2026 at 1:00 pm
There are currently 15 well-documented Late Pleistocene localities in North America in which Clovis points are found associated with proboscidean remains (of mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere). Archaeologists routinely assume these localities represent evidence that Clovis people hunted these multi-ton animals, and in turn invoke that evidence to claim humans had a role in the extinction of these large mammals.
An iconic spear-throwing device likely wasn't...
on June 30, 2026 at 3:20 pm
Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and force when throwing darts. In particular, use of the atlatl was thought to be common in the Clovis culture in North America, which occurred roughly between 13,340 and 12,710 years ago. However, new research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the […]
The oldest evidence of mourning rituals reveals...
on June 29, 2026 at 12:30 am
Roughly 27,500 years ago, a 15-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a bear in Arene Candide in what is now Liguria, Italy. The attack tore through his jaw, neck and left shoulder. He was dying, but he was not alone in his final moments.
Oxygen atoms in 15‑million‑year‑old giant...
on June 28, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Some periods in Earth's history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are interested in the age of dinosaurs or the Ice Ages, but it is an intermediate world, the Miocene Epoch—a sort of "in-between" world, geologically speaking: less recent than mammoths and stone tools, but not the deep past of dinosaurs—that many scientists find interesting.