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Tall bones in a fully grown
mammoth’s spine gave it a
shoulder hump that could be
more than 10 ft (3 m) high.

Huge grinding teeth enabled
mammoths to chew their way
through vast quantities of
coarse vegetation on the
northern grasslands.
Female mammoth

Both males and females
had tusks, which they used
for pushing down trees and
clearing snow away from
low-growing plants.

to life in the cold. The woolly mammoth and ice-age mammals, including some types
the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta, for instance, of mammoth, lived farther south where the
both had thick hair to keep out the cold, and climate was less harsh, or moved north only
their bulk ensured that they lost body heat less during warm periods between the coldest
easily than smaller mammals. They lived in spells. We have been living in one of these
the northern tundra and grasslands, but other warm periods for the last 12,000 years. 193

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