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Woolly mammoth bones had been seen and even traded by the native Siberians for thousands of years before Europeans heard of them. However, the Siberian people believed that the bones came from giant moles. When Europeans heard of the bones, they thought that they came from giants or behemothes.
Hans Sloane, a British scientist, discovered that the bones came from elephants when he was studying a mammoth tooth in 1728. He believed that the elephant bones were carried there in the Biblical Great Flood, or that Siberia had previously been much warmer.
In 1796, French scientist Georges Cuvierer determined that the mammoth wasn't a modern elephant, and that instead, it was an extinct species (extinction wasn't a highly accepted concept at the time). In 1828, Joshua Brooks realized that mammoths belonged to an extinct genus, and gave them the woolly mammoth its current scientific name, Mammuthus primigenius.
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Who invented mammoths?
Depending on your religious views you might say God "invented" the mammoth, but outside of religious beliefs mammoths were not invented, they evolved. Nobody in particular discovered them as tribes in Siberia have been collecting their fossils for millennia.
Are elephants not mammoths?
Elephants are less hairy than mammoths and do not posses such large tusks. Elephants are not extinct, while mammoths are.
How long did mammoths live for?
The mammoths lived for 100,000000 of years but a mammoths lived for 80 years
Why are people saving mammoths?
They are not - mammoths were dinosaurs and are extinct
Did mammoths eat other animals?
No mammoths were vegetarians.
What color are woolly mammoths?
Wooly Mammoths are brown.
Does extinction describe pandas or wooly mammoths?
wooly mammoths
When was Winston-Salem Mammoths created?
Winston-Salem Mammoths was created in 1995.
What do mammoths have in common?
1. All mammoths had long, dramatically curved tusks. 2. All mammoths had longer forelimbs than hind limbs. 3. All mammoths were grazers.
Did mammoths live on plains?
Mammoths were grass eating animals. Because grass grows well in the plains, that would have been an ideal habitat for mammoths. In fact, woolly mammoths lived in the tundra, which are dry, treeless plains, and Columbian mammoths lived in the Great Plains.
What did Woolly Mammoths drink?
Mammoths usually drank water and it had to be clean to.
Do woolly mammoths live in northern Alaska?
Woolly Mammoths are extinct.
