A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene Epoch from around 4.8 million years ago, into the Pleistocene at about 4,500 years ago. The word mammoth comes from the Russian мамонт mamont, probably in turn from the Vogul (Mansi) language, mang ont, meaning "earth horn". illustration was published in 1880 "The History of Earth" scan by Ivan Burmistrov [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=15890315][img]http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve.php?size=1&id=15890315[/img][/url] [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=16084287][img]http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve.php?size=1&id=16084287[/img][/url] [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=7408319][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3902/iburmistrov.2/0_3d6f7_291c54d6_orig[/img][/url] Mammoth Animal Skeleton Dinosaur Mammoth
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