IM ALEX FARNHAM AND THIS IS ANIMALIST NEWS. DO YOU REMEMBER WOOLLY MAMMOTHS?
YOU KNOW, THOSE GIANT, HAIRY ELEPHANT LIKE CREATURES WITH THE LONG CURVY TUSKS?
WELL ONCE AGAIN, SCIENTISTS THINK THEYRE CLOSER TO BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE!
BUT WHY WOULD WE WANT MAMMOTHS BACK STOMPING AROUND ON EARTH? WELL, MOSTLY JUST BECAUSE
THEYRE AWESOME. HERE ARE FIVE COOL FACTS ABOUT THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH.
NUMBER FIVE: MAMMOTHS WERENT ALL THAT BIG... ASIDE FROM THE SONGHUA RIVER MAMMOTH, WHICH
WAS ESTIMATED TO STAND 17 FEET TALL...MOST WERE NOT ALL THAT MUCH BIGGER THAN OUR MODERN
DAY ELEPHANTS. THERE WERE ALSO LITTLE GUYS TOO!
THE PYGMY MAMMOTH LIVED ON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS NEAR CALIFORNIA, AND STOOD ONLY ABOUT 6 FEET
TALL.
NUMBER FOUR: MAMMOTH'S ONLY HAD 4 TEETH! THEY USED GIANT MOLARS TO BREAK DOWN TOUGH PLANT
MATTER. ONLY THING IS THEY DIDNT CHEW IT, INSTEAD THEY WOULD RUB THEIR TEETH BACK AND
FORTH TO SHRED THE GRASS!
NUMBER THREE: ALTHOUGH WOOLLY MAMMOTHS WERE AROUND OVER A MILLION YEARS AGO, THE LAST
MAMMOTHS WERE AROUND ONLY 4,000 YEARS AGO! WHILE MOST WOOLLIES
