PRONUNCIATION: | wool-ly MAM-oth |
TRANSLATION: | From the old Russian word "mammut" for the animals - possibly meaning "earth mole" as they believed the animals to live underground and die on contact with the light (explaining why they were always found dead and half-buried). |
DESCRIPTION: | Herbivore, Quadrupedal |
KINGDOM: | Animalia |
ORDER: | Proboscidae |
SUBORDER: | Elephantoidea |
SUBCLASS: | Eutheria |
CLASS: | Mammalia |
PHYLUM: | Chordata |
FAMILY: | Elephantidae |
GENUS: | Mammuthus |
LENGTH: | 11.5 feet (3.5 m) long |
TALL: | 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall |
WEIGHT: | 3 tons (2.75 tons) |
PERIOD: | Pleistocene to early Holocene Epoch |
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