#Mastodon animal age free

The Woolly Mammoth was covered with thick fur and had small ears and a short tail.

#Mastodon animal age free

In Ontario, the ice started to melt for the last time about 18,000 years ago and all of Ontario was free of ice by about 8,000 years ago. The land called Beringia - Siberia, Alaska, and part of Yukon - was ice-free. These remaining glaciers still cover Greenland, parts of the Arctic, Antarctica and mountainous regions.Īt the peak of the last ice age, about 25,000 years ago, almost all of Canada and ALL of Ontario were covered by ice that was as much as 2 to 3 km thick (Figure 3). The remains of the last glaciers cover about 10% of the Earth's land surface. During this warm period, most of the ice sheets from the last glacial period melted away. We are presently in a warm period, called an interglacial period, that started about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. The last great ice started about 2,580,000 years ago. If you are interested in the difference between the Woolly Mammoth and the Mastodon, both of which roamed the land together, check out this Mental_floss article or the Youtube video by Daniel Fisher. Also, skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, dung, and prehistoric cave paintings give important insights to this ice-age majestic megafauna animal! A lot is known about the appearance and behaviour of the Woolly Mammoth because carcasses have been discovered in Siberia and Alaska, frozen in the permafrost. It looked like a large, furry African elephant (Figures 1 and 2). The Woolly Mammoth was a majestic animal.

This is the generalized geological story of the Woolly Mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius), which lived in Canada until about 12,000 years ago. I am not an expert on, not is this an exhaustive description of, the Woolly Mammoth.