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The wooly mammoth The Woolly Mammoth was a species of elephant that lived from about 2.5 million years ago until as recently as 10,000 years ago. It lived primarily in areas that were very cold, and during the last ice age, that would have been most of the entire planet. They were found in Asia, Europe and North and South America. In appearance they resembled today's elephants with the exception of having larger tusks and were covered …

…may have simply been something that we can blame man for. Pictures of Mammoths have been found in caves all over the world, it is possible that man could have been responsible for the mass extinction of such a hardy animal. A completely intake specimen was found in 1901 in Siberia and several more have been found in Alaska and Russia since then. Currently steps are being taken to try to clone one in the lab.