Amazing facts about Woolly mammoth:-
- Woolly mammoths looked a lot like today's Asian elephants, except for one major difference that They were covered in a thick coat of brown hair. They even had fur-lined ears.
- Woolly mammoths have large, curved tusks. This may be used for fighting and also may be used as a digging tool for food under the snow such as grasses, roots, small plants.
- According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Woolly mammoths were around 4 meters tall and weighed around 6 tons.
- Some of the Woolly mammoth's hair could reach up to 1 m long.
- Though woolly mammoths are known for living in the frozen places of the Arctic, mammoths actually arrived there from a much warmer home.
- Research by a team from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, found that the ancestors of both the mammoth and Asian elephant originated in Africa 6.7 million to 7 million years ago. They seemed that they have stayed there for about 4 million years before moving up into Southern Europe.
- The woolly mammoth’s survival in a much colder environment is credited by the research team to small genetic mutations that could have kept them warmer.
- Many woolly mammoth's corpses are so well preserved that the scientist has been able to extract DNA.
- The DNA could be used to clone woolly mammoths, bringing them back from extinction, In theory. In fact, The Woolly Mammoth Revival is a project that is working toward making this idea a reality.
