Mammoth Fossils

A mammoth is any member of the genus Mammuthus . Mammoths looked like modern elephants, except that most had long hair and longer tusks than modern elephants. Mammoths lived during the late Pliocene through the Pleistocene, from approximately 5 million years ago to as recent as 4,000 years ago. Their fossils are relatively common in many Pleistocene-aged deposits around the world, including the North Sea, river deposits in the southeastern United States, Hungary, and Siberia.