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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

Woolly mammoth, a species of mammoth that lived throughout the Pleistocene epoch—also known as the “ice age” (approximately 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago)—became extinct during the Holocene. Its closest living relative is the elephant (Elephas maximus). Knowledge of its physiology and behavior, as an extinct species, has been derived from frozen carcasses found in Siberia and Alaska, as well as from skeletal remains, teeth, gut contents, fecal samples, and prehistoric cave drawings (row stoma