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Mammoth refers to the subspecies within the genus Mammuthus of the elephant family. The most distinctive features of mammoth species are long, their curved tusks, and the long hairs seen in northern species. Although many mammoth species lived from the Pliocene epoch (approximately 5 million years ago) until the beginning of the Holocene, the vast majority of their populations became extinct during the Late Pleistocene epoch none. The closest living relatives of mammoths today are Asian elephant