A mammal of ice age

 Common name-Woolly mammoth 

  Scientific name-Mammuthus premigenius   

Kingdom-Animalia

Phylum-Chordata

Class-Mammalia

Diet-Herbivores

Weight- about 6 tonnes in males,4 tonnes in females 

Height-2.7 to 3.4m of males,2.6 to 2.9m of females

Life span-60yrs (approx)

Habitat-across northern Asia,many parts of Europe and northern part of North America.

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch(a particular period of time in history). It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. They become extinct about 4000 yrs ago. The habitat of the woolly mammoth is known as "mammoth steppe" or "tundra steppe". 

Woolly mammoths entered in North America about 100,000 yrs ago. Scientific evidence suggests that small populations of woolly mammoths may have survived in North America until between 10,500 and 7,600 years ago.

It was covered in fur, with an outer covering of long guard hairs and a shorter undercoat.It had long, curved tusks of 5m approx which was used to fighting and digging in the snow and four molars, their ears were smaller than today's elephants.

The vast majority of woolly mammoths died out at the end of the last ice age, about 10,500 years ago.Humans may also be partly responsible for their disappearance due to hunting, who used its bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and the species was also hunted for food.