Mammoths were large elephant-like animals that lived in the northern hemisphere (including North America, Asia and Europe) from a perhaps 5 million years ago until just a few thousand year ago. There were many different species of mammoths, only some of which were covered with thick coats of insulating hair – although of course as far as most people are concerned, the most familiar type of mammoth (indeed the only type of mammoth that they are aware of), is the Tundra Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, which is popularly known as the “Woolly Mammoths”.

Woolly Mammoths were grazing herbivores (plant-eatings) that were well-suited to living in cold environments. They had an 3 inch (8 centimeter) layer of insulating fat (similar to blubber in whales) beneath their skin, they had a thick undercoat of hair, and a longer shaggy outer coat of hair which may have grown as long as 3 feet (1 meter). Another noteworthy feature is that unlike modern elephants which generally live in warm environments and use their ears to help cool themselves, Woolly Mammoths had comparatively small ears.

Unfortunately for Mammoths, as the last ice age came to an end and the climate change, their range gradually shrank, and they became restricted to smaller and smaller areas. Eventually, as a result of this habitat loss, and perhaps also because of hunting by humans, Woolly Mammoths became extinct. The final extinction of these impressive animals actually happened surprising 1700 Wrangel Island to the island life in the Arctic, Russia (Last – Mammoth's wool) BC weeks, it is the invention.

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