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The Incredible Wooly Mammoth

Table of contents . 4 interesting FactsImportant peopleCollage Period of timeHow they were discovered Their Cousins (The Elephants) Their Ancestors (Steppe Mammoth) Glossary . Interesting Facts. Mammoth fossils arent usually fossilized in stone. Mammoth fossils are like preserved in a organ

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The Incredible Wooly Mammoth

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    1. The Incredible Wooly Mammoth By: Diana Lopez Pd:3rd Mr. Strand

    2. Table of contents 4 interesting Facts Important people Collage Period of time How they were discovered Their Cousins (The Elephants) Their Ancestors (Steppe Mammoth) Glossary

    3. Interesting Facts Mammoth fossils aren‘t usually fossilized in stone. Mammoth fossils are like preserved in a organic state. Mammoths had two different subspecies. One stayed in the high Arctic. The other one had a much wider range around the Arctic.

    4. Interesting Facts (continued) Wooly Mammoths were larger and heavier than the present day African elephants. Wooly Mammoths had shaggy fur up to 1 meter long. Wooly mammoths had a layer of skin up to 8 cm (3.1 in) thick.

    5. Important people People of Siberia had found, what are now known to be woolly mammoth remains. They collecting their tusks for a trade of ivory. People from the Neolithic and The Stone Age hunted wooly mammoths for there fur, meat and many other things.

    6. Collage

    7. Period of Time The Wooly Mammoth have lived possibly 150,000 years ago.

    8. How they went extinct. Most Wooly Mammoths are believed to have gone extinct by the climate change, or they went extinct by the early humans hunting them.

    9. Their cousins The Elephants Elephants are believed to be the wooly mammoths present day cousin. Wooly Mammoths and elephants might look alike but wooly mammoths are taller than African elephants and have shorter ears than elephants. Wooly Mammoths have gone extinct and elephants are on the edge of extinction because mean people kill elephants for their tusks and through away the rest of the elephant. Even though it is illegal to do that. ?

    10. Their Ancestors The Steppe Mammoth Steppe Mammoths are 15ft tall at the shoulder. Steppe Mammoths had spiral tusks that are about 17ft long. Steppe Mammoths are not well known mammoths but they were a living species.

    11. Glossary Shaggy- Covered with or having long rough hair. Species- A certain type of animal. Extinct- Gone off the face of the earth forever. edge of extinction- Almost extinct but not quite there yet. Ivory- The white substance on elephant tusks, walrus tusk, ect.

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