Mammuthus primigenius (Woolly Mammoth): Research Database Elephantidae · Pleistocene (~400,000 – 4,000 YA) · Holarctic — Siberia, Alaska, Northern Europe Research Note: Mammuthus primigenius is the most famous ice age megafauna — preserved by the thousands in Siberian permafrost, it is one of the best-studied extinct animals. Woolly mammoth DNA has been sequenced, and cloned … Read more
In Depth Further Reading – Tooth morphology of Mammuthus meridionalis from the Southern bight of the North Sea and from several localities in the Netherlands – Hans van Essen – 2003. – Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Campo di Pile (L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy) – S. Agostini, M.R. Palombo M.A. Rossi, E. Di Canzio & … Read more
In Depth Mammuthus columbi is better known as the Columbian mammoth, although it is not actually named after the country Colombia that is in South America, but after the province of British Columbia in Canada. The Columbian mammoth appears to have been one of the most common mammoths roaming North America during the Pleistocene, and is … Read more
In Depth During the Pleistocene there was an island called Santa Rosae off the southern coast of California between the areas that are today known as Point Conception and Ventura. At some point, perhaps when the sea levels were particularly low, Columbian mammoths (M. columbi) crossed over from the mainland to colonise Santa Rosae. Although large … Read more
Mammuthus trogontherii, better known as the steppe mammoth, holds an important place for those who study mammoths as it is often treated as a link between the early M. meridionalis known as the southern mammoth and the later M. primigenius, more famously known as the woolly mammoth. M. trogontherii however was larger than both its ancestor and descendent which … Read more