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A wooly mammoth.
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The Woolly Mammoth--a Cold-Weather Model
The genus Mammuthus includes a number of distinct species, of which the best known is the woolly mammoth. “The woolly mammoth represents the end point in a series of adaptations to the Ice Age habitat,” write Adrian Lister and Paul Bahn in Mammoths. Extremely specialized to survive in the frigid Arctic, the woolly mammoth probably arose in Siberia but eventually inhabited a vast northern range extending from Ireland to the eastern North America. “Living south of the ice sheets, it inhabited a landscape of rich, grassy vegetation largely devoid of trees,” write Lister and Bahn.
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