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Woolly mammoths were adapted to living in freezing conditions towards the northern most area of earth, for example where Siberia now is. As the conditions have remained freezing since the ice age, mammoths that have been buried under snow since they were dead have not decomposed. This is because as the stable freezing cold for millions of years slows down the animation of bacteria. They too are frozen in the process, and decomposition occurs because bacteria in the internal organs of the animal, and in the atmosphere multiply without the control of an immune system and devour the body leaving a soup like waste product. And of course flies, and other such life form that feed on carcasses are unable to get to it because it is buried deep in ice. This, combined with having the effect of bacteria eliminated from the remains leaves an almost perfectly preserved mummified mammoth.
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Are elephants not mammoths?
Elephants are less hairy than mammoths and do not posses such large tusks. Elephants are not extinct, while mammoths are.
How long did mammoths live for?
Mammoths generally lived for about 60-80 years. The age of individual mammoths can be determined by studying their teeth and bones.
Why are people saving mammoths?
They are not - mammoths were dinosaurs and are extinct
Did mammoths eat other animals?
No mammoths were vegetarians.
What color are woolly mammoths?
Wooly Mammoths are brown.
Does extinction describe pandas or wooly mammoths?
wooly mammoths
When was Winston-Salem Mammoths created?
Winston-Salem Mammoths was created in 1995.
What do mammoths have in common?
1. All mammoths had long, dramatically curved tusks. 2. All mammoths had longer forelimbs than hind limbs. 3. All mammoths were grazers.
Did mammoths live on plains?
Mammoths were grass eating animals. Because grass grows well in the plains, that would have been an ideal habitat for mammoths. In fact, woolly mammoths lived in the tundra, which are dry, treeless plains, and Columbian mammoths lived in the Great Plains.
Do woolly mammoths live in northern Alaska?
Woolly Mammoths are extinct.
What is a woolly mammoths reaction to a human?
Get out of here! Wooly mammoths were hunted by humans.
What is mammoths habbitat?
Mammoths lived in the coldest parts of the world like sibera.
