Scientific name: Mammuthus primigenius
Extinction status: Extinct Encyclopedia of Life
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Phylum: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia
he woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.
The woolly mammoth began to diverge from the steppe mammoth about 800,000 years ago in East Asia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. DNA studies show that the Columbian mammoth was a hybrid between woolly mammoths and another lineage descended from steppe mammoths.
The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who used its bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and hunted the species for food.
Within six weeks from 2005-2006, three teams of researchers independently assembled mitochondrial genome.
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