Endangered animals ( Mammoth)

Mammuthus is an extinct genus of mammals, commonly known as mammoths. They existed from about 4.8 million years ago until just 3,700 years ago. Many species have been described, being the most known of all woolly mammoth. They have found mammoth fossils in North America, Eurasia and Africa.

Mammoths were large proboscídeos the same dimensions and in some than modern elephants cases. The largest known species are M.

Mammoths are mainly characterized by their bulging head, proboscis muscular and long curved tusks. The northern species were covered with hair to withstand the cold glaciers of its ecosystem. The tusk mammoth largest on record is a woolly mammoth, whose length reached 5 meters

Most mammoths died out at the end of the last ice age. Still it has not found a definitive explanation for their extinction.