Both the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoths were New World branches of an elephantine tree rooted in the Old World. The first mammoths – the earliest representatives of the genus Mammuthus – ...

Few extinct animals other than the dinosaurs have attracted more attention than the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Between 700,000 and 4,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, these ...