Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus Skeleton, 1830
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Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus Skeleton, 1830
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Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus) skeleton, 1830. An extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene epoch (2,500,000 to 10,000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe as 30,000 year-old frozen carcasses in melting glaciers. This example, approximately 3m (9ft) high and 5.5m (16ft) long, was discovered in the ice in Siberia in 1799. From The Animal Kingdom by George Leopold Cuvier. (London, 1830). (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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