The Wooly Mammoth, 3D Illustration Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The woolly mammoth, also woolly or fur mammoth Mammuthus primigenius, is an extinct species from the elephant family. This type of mammoth developed in the transition from the Old to the Middle Pleistocene around 800,000 to 600,000 years ago in Siberia and inhabited the cold-ages steppes in northern Eurasia and North America. It represents the final link in the Plio- and Pleistocene development of the mammoths. At the end of the Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth died out in large parts of its distribution area, but survived regionally in some remaining populations until the middle Holocene 1800 BC.