Photo by: Mauricio Anton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSimilarly, one of their other most obvious features may have also been an adaptation to their environment.\u00a0 Their 5 m (16′) long tusks may have been used to clear snow away from the ground so they could get to the frozen vegetation underneath.\u00a0 How cool would it be to use a Wooly Mammoth to shovel your driveway in the morning.\u00a0 I wouldn’t even care if the snow plow came by just as I finished shoveling.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately these mammoths went extinct as temperatures warmed and their habitat was lost.\u00a0 Wait a minute, isn’t that exact same thing happening now?\u00a0 Besides their loss of habitat, hunting pressures from humans also played a role in pushing them over the edge of extinction.\u00a0 They may no longer roam the Tundra but they will always have a place in our museums.<\/p>\n
One more extinct animal down with only two more to go before Wild Facts – Extinction becomes extinct itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my all time favourite extinct animals has to be the Wooly Mammoth so of course I was going to take this opportunity to explore their interesting history.\u00a0 Living up in the Yukon has given me an even greater appreciation of this giant beast.\u00a0 The Yukon Beringia interpretive Centre here in Whitehorse has some amazing information on these beautiful creatures that lived just north of here as few as 10 000 years ago.\u00a0 Grab your coat since we are heading back to the Ice Age for this Wild Fact. The Wooly Mammoth is a large animal but surprisingly not <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,1186,1192,1190,1193,4025,1191,1189],"yoast_head":"\n
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