What Were the Mammoths?

Mammoths are fossil elephants, closely related to the Asian elephants, from whose branch they split off 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago. They appeared in Africa where two species of mammoth lived 4.8 MA ago. A huge mammoth species, the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) roamed the plains of... [ read more >> ]