The difference between the mammoth and an elephant. Why Yakutia and Northern Siberia became a cemetery of mammoths, and where scientific explanation for this fact

I wrote this article primarily for myself, and only then for all lovers of natural science and "obvious-incredible." I wanted to fold in a logical chain found in the most different sources Facts and associate their consistent logic. What happened to me in the end - to judge you, reader.

The first indisputable fact, proving that herbivore mammoths once lived in the territory of the current Siberia and Yakutia, are these artifacts mined from the Earth:

The second indisputable fact - Mammoths in Siberia and Yakutia was extremely much!

If we take the weight of one major tusca, and it is up to 100-110 kg, and comparable to it with the weight of the animal that could wear such a tutorial, it will turn out that the weight of the Mammoth itself was at least 20 times more weight Two testes, and these are 4 tons at least. And if on this weight of one animal multiplied the fossil number of mammoths, buried in the ground of Siberia and Yakutia, and these are hundreds of thousands of tons according to scientists, we will receive that the total weight of animals that wander once in the land of Siberia and Yakutia amounted to several million Ton! And they fed at the same time extremely vegetable food!

The third indisputable fact - in Yakutsk is the only specialized World Mammoth Museum in the world.

"Yakutia is a mysterious edge, with its peculiar culture, ethnicity, nature. And the fascinating is the number of people who live here and extinct animals. After all, there were no time to live here: sheby, cave Lev., woolly rhino, bison and mammoth. For no accident, the last one is the main symbol of the National Culture of Yakutia.

The subsoil of Yakutia, composed of permafrost, became a wonderful natural storage room, where in the frozen state to the present day not only bones of skeletons are preserved, but also unique patterned remains of mammoths.

The territory of Yakutia accounts for more than 90% of all finds of ancient animals with preserved soft tissues.

Finding Mammoth over the past 50 years have no less scientific and museum value. This is the Bereleh "Cemetery" of more than 150 mammoths, the perfectly preserved skeleton of the Sandrinsky Mammoth with the insides, head and leg of the Yukagirsky Mammoth, full of adult female rhinoceros, a carcass of a young chromium mammoth.

In 1991, the world's unique specialized World Museum in the world was created in Yakutsk. The museum is engaged in the search and study of mammoths and mammoth fauna, natural environment glacial period, museum and exhibition work. "

The fourth indisputable fact is the old Book of Wivliotics, which are mentioned in Siberia "Elephants", " global flood"And the subsequent sharp cooling Climate:

For this unique material containing "Meeting of antiquities of Russian, to history, geography and genealogy of Russian concerning"I want to thank the blogger ASCETIC. Next, part of the text of it, part - written by me.

Material for this and other books N. I. Novikov Drapal from the ancillary of private, church, as well as state, access to which he was permitted personally by Empress Catherine II in 1773.

On pages 397-398 "Wivliotics" is cited by the source of Russian antiquity, dated 1692. This source is called:

That is, attention, reader! In the book N.I. Novikova, who was published in 1789, are given historical evidence Russian ambassador Ebergarard elected, who performed a trip from Moscow in 1692 to China. Not clear only, through Siberia, did he go to China? At the same time said russian ambassador Vied the diary, in which he recorded what he saw and heard along the way. And that's what he found out in 1692:

If elephants and mammoths are grass animals that, to survive, should be eaten by grass, fruit and leaves round year, it is clear and logical that they could live in huge quantities Only B. warm climate. But, how to believe that at the site of Siberia and Yakutia with their lute current frosts was once quite a spa climate, and in summer and winter?!

However, on the other hand, how to deny the obvious - numerous remains of these major herbivores in these regions of modern Russia?

It is also clear that the Russian Ambassador and Traveler Ebergard elected, while in 1692 in Cold Siberia with its current frosty climate, with a large share of Skepticism perceived stories local residents: "To the flood, they say their places allegedly were very warm, and the elephants there were many, koi, koi with all the other tweaks of Skill ...", "and after the flood, they changed them, and began to be quite cold!".

Curious on this comment of the devotee, who one of the first to do to this unique information:

"Pay attention to the ancient Siberians and Rusky say: "To the flood ..." STOP!!! To what fette? What a fool is completely calm about (as if everyone knows about it, and there is no need for the details of the description) as the author himself (sent by the Romanov Brothers to China) and the junks (from his words).

Why don't we know anything about this from official history?

And it is not easy the flood (The river left the shores ...).

There are elephants with mammoths swam! This means that settlements washed off (mammoth size and weight with a log house, if nothing more)!

In this small passage, quite a lot of information confirming alternative version stories, about not so long ago flood, with mud-selete flows, created by the layers of soil, on top of the existing soil levels, containing various artifacts, like that - remains of bodies, bones, chips of ceramics, items, utensils, and so on, which converted Sel.

Usually, conducting excavations, specialists take into account the depth of the found artifact, when calculating his age, without taking into account the fact that various layers were not necessarily formed as a result of sedimentation of dust during many thousands of years, and most often, simultaneously, the dirt-silence Threads.

In such a wonder, everything found can be shifted both in time (it was much later, closer to our time) and in space (where the artifact brought to the location of the detection is unknown) by and large, the whole card house of modern X / Z-Toria collapses !

Let us see the excerpt of this, with a thorough subjected to its detailed, detailed analysis:

The locals are told openly that their places were very warm (before the flood) and the elephants there were many. The fact that the flood has happened (!!!) that the elephants and the "other creatures" floated on water, and sweeping in mud (applied by the villagers) and swamps (naturally formed at the same time), which in itself, straight, black on white , Word in the Word confirms the version of the modern RUS's Internet Community alternative HistoryThe consequences of the Flood undoubtedly not so long ago ...

And below - (stressed blue) Ebergard elected references the believability of information about the change of climate ( "Turning off the current about climate change") and gives its own version of what happened (emphasized yellow).

Apparently, Ebergard chosen himself believed not everything from the ancient Siberians and Rusky. But here is the fact floodthe author of "Vivliotics" doubt does not at any way: "this opinion cannot be very destroyed."

What to say, it is said more than approved!

The fifth indisputable fact is the ground inside the warm, and in the center even hot!

"The globe is covered with a stone shell - this is the earth's bark. In recess on every 33 meters inside earth crust The temperature rises by an average of 1 degrees. This rate of increasing temperature with a depth (geothermal gradient) depends on the place on Earth: it turns out to be 20 meters on the island of Kaliman (Borneo), 30-35 meters in Central Europe, 40-45 meters in North America. The specified value of the geothermal gradient takes place only in a relatively thin layer of the earth's crust (not deeper than 100 kilometers). The kernel of the land has a temperature of 3-5 thousand Kelvinov. "

Sixth indisputable fact - most of Russia is located in the "Eternal Merzlot" zone.

How it is consistent with the statement that "In the deepening for every 33 meters inside the earth's crust, the temperature rises an average of 1 degree"?!

Why does this rule not apply to Siberia and Yakutia ???

Seventh indisputable fact - The earth has two heavy duty generators of thermal energy.

One heavy duty heat generator internal - the earth's core, spilled to the surface of the surface of the Sun, and this is 6000 degrees on the Celsius scale.

Another heavy-duty heat generator external is the sun, around which the planet Earth draws almost in a circular orbit, making turnover for 1 year.

And here we came to the most interesting ...

We approached the question: where does the cold bearing on Earth?

The simplest explanation, and it is in principle true, I found on the Internet:

"To answer your question, you will have to turn to such science as astronomy.

The reason why on our planet is changing seasons, lies in the movement of the Earth around the Sun.

The path in which space space moves earthhas a slightly elongated circle— ellipse. In the center of this ellipse - the sun.

The transition from the warm season (spring, summer) to the cold (autumn, winter) is not at all because the Earth is approaching the Sun, it is removed from it. But today many people think so!

The fact is that the earth, in addition to the appeal around the Sun, rotates around the imaginary axis (line passing through the North and South Poles). If the axis of the earth was located at a right angle to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, we would not have the time of the year, and all the days would be the same. But this axis is tilted in relation to the Sun (23 ° 27 "). As a result, the Earth rotates around the Sun in the inclined position. This position is maintained all year round, and the land axis is always directed at one point - to the polar star.

Therefore B. different time The Earth is in different ways to substitute its surface in different ways. When sun rays Fall steep, straight, the sun is hotter. If the rays of the sun fall on the earth's surface at an angle, then they warm the ground surface is weaker.

The sun always stands directly at the equator and in the tropics, so the inhabitants of these places do not know the cold. There is not so abrupt, as we have, the seasons are replaced, and never snow.

At the same time, part of the year each of the two poles turn to the Sun, and the second part is hidden from him. When North hemisphere Turn to the sun, in countries north of the equator - summer and day long, south - winter, and the day is short. When the straight rays of the sun fall on the southern hemisphere - summer comes here, and in North - winter.

Astronomical winter on the planet lasts since winter Solstice until the moment spring equinox, that is, in the northern hemisphere of the Earth from December 22 to March 21, in Southern Hemisphere from June 22 to September 21. IN for different years (on Earth) these astronomical moments fall at different times (within the specified days), however Gregorian calendar It is designed so that it will not be betrayed for a long time. "

Here interesting maps Weather as of July 1, 2017 on the side of the southern and north poles of the Earth, in which the temperature is indicated by the temperature of the air, and thin lines - Denote wind movement. Now at some points Southern Pole. (In the centers of anticyclonov) the air temperature reaches minus 70 degrees Celsius. There is now winter and polar night. In the heart of the North Pole, the air temperature is zero degrees Celsius. There is now summer and polar day.

However, all this concerns temperature ground surface and air in the near-earth layer, which warms or cooled, contacting the surface of the Earth. And I was interested in the presence of the presence of the territory of Russia "permafrost", which extends from the surface of our planet deep into her somewhere on meters, and somewhere on many hundreds of meters!

The eighth indisputable fact (it is the consequence of the fifth undeniable fact) - how would saw Winter No, tap pipes, buried a few meters under the ground, do not mix even in tall frosts!

The construction engineers have even a table and a calculation formula, according to which the depth of laying pipes with water is calculated so that they do not freeze in the winter and did not burst.

But what about the "Eternal Merzlot"? What is a multi-year (eternal) of the Merzlot?

Ninth indisputable fact - " eternal Frost"Not fiction!

"At least a quarter of the whole sushi on our planet occupies an eternal Merzlota - a layer of soil, which for many years retains a negative temperature, without thawing in the warm season.

In the scientific community, it is now customary to call eternal thieves of many years of cryoliozone Or a long-term Marzlot, since in fact, the absurd layer exists not "forever", but for a certain period of time.

Where can I meet many years of marzlot?

Eternal Merzlota is a phenomenon characteristic of polar and amateur areas, which is observed in the territory adjacent to both poles - both Northern and South. In addition, the Merzlot is also found in other regions of the planet, including in Equatorial, but only in high-mountainous areas, on tops crowned with snow caps.

The only mainland, where there is no permafrost, is Australia, which is quite removed from the southern pole and does not have high mountain arrays. Solid arrays of permafrost are located in the northern part of the Eurasian continent, in the North of Canada, Alaska, at least half of the square of Greenland, as well as throughout Antarctica.

Greenland in the summer.

The thickness of the frozen layer ranges from 30 centimeters to more than a kilometer.

The greatest fixed depth perennial Murzlota Detected in the upper reaches of the Siberian River Vilyui running in the territory of Yakutia, and is 1370 meters! In Russia, eternal Merzlota takes almost two thirds common territory (65%), or 11 million square kilometers.

(See where the city of Vilyusk is on the map of Russia, around which the Eternal Merzlot, extending the land in more than 500 meters! But the city of Vilyuisk is not somewhere high in the mountains, where the snow always lies and always negative temperatures Air, it is located on the plain, towering over the sea level of only 110 meters. And this plain is for some reason the laptop of the Earth is incurred by more than 500 meters! Why?! Comment - A.B.).

Many areas are engaged in a solid Merzlot, which is a long-term character - this is the Northeast of Siberia, the Islands of the Arctic, New Earth etc. The territories located a bit south are characterized by the so-called island Merzlot, where the simply layer is small and can lay as a solid layer, but separate stains, and the temperature of the soil thickness varies from -6 degrees to zero.

How does the Eternal Merzlot manifest?

In the northern regions where the soil is fed by an eternal Merzlot, even in the summer pulls only a thin layer, not more than 5-10 centimeters. Water that is formed after melting winter snow, It cannot be completely absorbed into the soil, so the upper layer in the summer is a semi-liquid dirt.

If the fattened soil is located on the slope, then the mud "language" under the action of gravity is often sliding on it into a nic. The relief of the tundra in many places is replete with such traces of mud landslides.

With the end of the summer, the landscape may change beyond recognition. Talay water that filling the cracks in rocks freezes (in this case, its volume increases by about 10%) and breaks the breed. This causes either swelling or soil shift. Externally, such a place looks like a hill in the form of a dome with a height of about 30-50 meters, whose top of which split into several parts is either scored.

Locals call these hills in the word "Pingo". They can be found not only in Siberia, but also in Canada and Greenland. At the tops of Pingo are often formed small crater, which in the summer turn into shallow lake.

Merzlota and human activity

For mastering northern districts Knowledge of the peculiarities of many years of marzlot is extreme importance. Consider the properties of the marzlota is necessary when building buildings and structures, conducting geological exploration, during mining and transporting their transportation to more favorable regions of the country. An uncontrolled melting of the marzlot can deliver a lot of problems, and during the work of such an opportunity it is necessary to avoid in every way.

At the same time, the primer, devoid of mobility, the soil is very convenient when developing deposits open, career. Since the walls of the career are abandoned with a Merzlot and do not appear, work is carried out significantly more efficiently than under normal conditions.

IN last decade The area occupied by the Eternal Merzlot began to shrink. Simple layers slowly retreat to the north, because total temperature On the planet grows under the influence of processes global warming .

It is possible that after 50-100 years, areas freed from the marzlot will be able to become a new resident of Russia. "

We have not yet understood why, in Siberia and Yakuria, Mammoths first drowned in the waters of the Great Flood, and then frozen together with the swamps that had arisen and from the Earth, which turned into the "Eternal Merzlot", and now they say that the Global Warming process is now taking . And again, no one explains why this happens?!

So, in the vicinity of Vilyusk, located at an altitude of only 110 meters above sea level, formed under the ground cone-like almost half-and-a-kilometer low-temperature layer ("Eternal Merzlota"), if the planet Earth inside the warm, and in the center even hot! (Fifth irrefutable fact).

To answer this question, I will probably have to remember the school lessons of physics and the principle of the home refrigerator.

By the way, it is very similar to the fact that the Mammoths were frozen in Siberia and in Yakutia, and the climate was changed there only because somewhere there underground suddenly some kind of natural heavy-duty natural refrigerator earned, about which we still Do not know anything!

I only vaguely guess that a sharp cooling there could begin by a counting on a molecular, atomic or wave level endothermal reaction which fossil substance.

Endothermal reactions (from Dr. Greek. ἜνΔον - inside and θέρμη - heat) - reactions accompanied by the absorption of heat. For endothermic reactions, the change in enthalpy and internal energy have positive meaningsThus, the reaction products contain more energy than the source components.

Otherwise, where does this "permafrost" underground, which is even in a laundered winter frosts should not be wrapped on that geographic latitude of more than 3 meters !!! Certificate of this - the eighth indisputable fact, which is a consequence of the fifth undeniable fact!

Settled throughout North America and Eurasia

Were the size of the African Elephant

There were more than 16 types of mammoths

Extinct 4500 years ago

There were herbivores

Information about Mamonts

Mammuthus Primigenius, also known as Woolly Mammoth, is extinct prehistoric species Mammals, from the elephant family, which appeared on the planet Earth about 5 million years ago and out of approximately 4500 years ago. His petrified bones were first discovered at the end of the 18th century, and was named Paleontologist Joshua Brooks in 1828.

The mamont drawings often depict as huge prehistoric elephants that were covered very long wool. This is true for Mammuthus Primigenius. Most people do not even suspect that more dozen existed on Earth different species Mammoths that settled throughout North America and Eurasia. For example, the steppe mammoth and imperial mammoth practically did not have wool. But the woolly mammoth was the most common view.

Mammoths roughly grew 4.5 meters in height on the shoulder, was about 6 meters in length, their weight could reach up to 6 tons. Such dimensions made these animals about the same size as african elephant. It will be interesting to know that many people consider mammoths with huge animals that are significantly massive and more modern elephants. In fact, their dimensions were almost the same. True, there still existed two giant species Mammoths: The Imperial Mammont, which weighed about 10 tons, and the steppe mammont - which reached 15 tons.

Also the reader will be interested to know what the beer Woolly mammoth Grow up to 5 meters long. Modern paleontologists believe that such long fangs may have been used to combat savory tigers. However, it was probably not their main function. Most likely, the animals dug the land with such bevnesses and searched for food, as well as probably, males used them during the marriage games.

Recent Mammoths disappeared about 4500 years ago. It is believed that overload caused by climate change and the appearance of people who began to lead the hunt for these animals, led to the death of this species.

Mammoths belong to the genus of mammals, which have long died out and no longer exists on Earth. They are affected by their sizes. Many mammoths have a height of 5-6 meters, and the body weight, about, 11 tons. According to its dimensions, they are twice as much as the largest, today, African elephants.

To date, archaeologists and researchers discover the bones of mammoths. Also found the drawings of these mammals, which did a prehistoric person. There were cases when in Alaska and Siberia, animal corpses were found, which were able to survive through finding in the cold. There were several types of mammals. The bulk of the size was the same as the elephants of our time. But they were stronger and more powerful than their relatives. The legs were shorter, the wool is long and thick, and the beavny was distinguished by a curved form. It was that the beer helped the Mammons to extract food from under the snowy davals. Mammal teeth perfectly coped with gross vegetable food varieties.

These amazing animals extinct about 9-10 thousand years ago, when the glacial period came. Scientists still diverge in opinions why Mammoths could not survive. One point of view says that animals did not survive because of the permanent hunters who destroyed them. The other opinion that the mammoths died, long before the appearance of a person at their localities.

1993 famous a significant event. On the island of Wrangels were found remains little viewwhose age is from 7 to 3 thousand years. It turns out that this species I existed in the times of the Egyptian pyramids and extinct, only when Tutankhamon reigned.

Perhaps the most ambitious burial of mammoth is located on the territory of the Kargat district. The bones are processed by scientists who draw conclusions about living humanity in ancient times in Siberia.

Interesting Facts

Modern scientists are trying to recreate a mammal using the genetic material of the found Mammoth corpses. But today all attempts do not bring results.

There is a monument that is dedicated to this powerful animal. He installed in the village of Kuleshovka in 1841.

A giant monument of Mammoth in natural size is banging on the banks of Obi.

Option 2.

Mammoths were the largest animals from the elephant family. Some of them were growing five and a half meters and weighing up to ten tons, were and dwarf species Mammoths, their growth was no more than two meters, and the mass did not exceed nine hundred kilograms.

Mammoths were fed on plants, it became known after found the remains of animals, which were well preserved and in the laboratories managed to study the remainder of food in their stomachs. Among the residues was found grass and leaves of trees. To maintain health, mammates needed about two hundred kilograms of food every day. Mammoths cut the leaves on the trees and put them in their mouth with the help of a trunk. Since Mammoths lived not only in the south, but also in the north, they had to survive in the winter. IN cold period Mammoths survived due to fat layers and plants that did not freeze in the cold.

Mammoth reproduction is very similar to the reproduction of modern elephants. Mammoths live more than sixty years.

What is surprising, but the mammoths were very restrained and peaceful animals.

Primitive people killed Mammoths, making a pit as a trap, then scored an animal. From the skins sewed clothes and used it as a decor for their home. Great danger for kids mammoths represented saval-toothed tigers. The enemies for kids were also wolves who were fearless and took prey directly from the mouth of the tiger. Scientists believe that a person ranks first among Mammoth enemies.

Unfortunately, such interesting animals extinct about ten thousand years ago due to the last ice age. Scientists have advanced two main reasons for the extinction of mammoths. The first reads - important role People played in the extinction. Another reason explains the extinction due to flooding, climate change, the disappearance of the mammoth feed.

The first version was when there were remains of people with large quantity Bones and Mammoths. This version quickly won popularity.

Scientists who tend to the second version believe that a person could not affect the life of animals. In proof of this, they lead the facts that many other animals have died out with Mamonts.

Most recently, scientists announced that they could create a copy of the mammoth. Since they have died relatively recently, scientists can assemble the Mammoth DNA and incubate it in the female elephant. Fortunately, this method does not work with dinosaurs.

Many do not know that the mammoths are a bit similar and on modern camels, as the hump - the result of accumulating the powerful supply of fat.

Many people enjoy the fact that the tummy costs more than two million rubles.

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Wolf Mesa - 11-meter hill in the Kargat district Novosibirsk region With a length of about 8 kilometers and a width of 1 kilometer. When excavations in 1957, the bones of Mammoth, Bizon and Horses were found here, and further research was allowed to establish that 14-11 thousand years ago in this area lived siberian Mammoths. In those times, the wolf of the mane was a long and narrow peninsula among swamps and lakes, which ended with a steep cliff. Nowadays, this is a paleontological monument of the nature of regional significance.

In 2015, more than 600 mammoths of the Mammuthus Primigenius type of Mammuthus Primigenius were discovered on the hill, which for this species is the largest local concentration in Asia. Season-2016 presented a new discovery: scientists and students of Tomsk state University (TSU) discovered a deep bison level, whose existence no one suspected. At a depth of about 1.7 to 2.1 meters, the bones of the young and adult mammoths were keys, which were significantly larger than their younger (in geological terms) relatives. This could already be called the success of the expedition, however, as explained by the head of the Mesozoic ecosystems and Cenozoic ecosystem laboratory, Sergey Leschinsky, there is an unlawful rule "the need to check the underlying deposits at least two bayonet shovels." The random test showed that subsequent excavations will take at least ten days. As a result, Paleontologists have discovered vertebral, ribs, bones of limbs and other bonnetal deposits with highest degree Concentration: one square meter There were more than 100 fragments. Such a high number of prehistoric animal residues neither on Wolch Merve, nor in some other mammoth location of Russia does not occur. The remnants of woolly mammoths, which have fallen on so deep for the wolf levels, are characterized by good safety: not only individual fragments were found, but also anatomical articulations, which will allow paleontologists to get more information about the place and causes of death of animals, to determine their age, sizes and other parameters . This was the result of the beauty of the burial: the clay layers and the sand melted the remains of animals in a small promine several years after their death. Among the largest found fragments - the thigh length of almost 1 meter 15 centimeters. It is probably belonged to the Mammoth male age 45-50 years, whose weight was 5-6 tons or even more, and the height, taking into account the soft tissues, exceeded three meters. His residues were lariped in the thickest rocks of 25-30 millennium. Scientists celebrate large difference in size between mammoths from the bottom and more high levels. This is explained by the fact that in the final period of its existence, this type of animal experienced a powerful pressure of adverse habitat factors. Judging by the fact that many remnants of the late Mammoth are signs of osteodistrophy, the animals suffered from mineral starvation. It was this that led them to the brutal salts, like Wolch Merve. In total, the 2016 Expedition found 785 fragments. In addition to mammoths, several bones belonged to bison, horses, predators (probably fox or sands) and rodents were found. Meet one of the versions

Many prehistoric animals cause zhugoid curiosity from our contemporaries. Take at least mammoths whose images flashes on zoology and television screens pages. Have they been the progenitors of the current representatives of the Fauna world, and for what reason did their extinction occurred? Answers to these questions are worried many to this day. We will try to analyze what the mammoth differs from the elephant.

Definitions

Mammoth- extinct species of mammals belonging to the family of elephants and living in quaternary period. Were distributed in the territory modern Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Numerous bones of these animals were found in places of parking of ancient people. In Alaska and Siberia, there are cases of detection of mammoth corpses that have survived due to the centuries-old stay in the thickness of the permissal. Most of the representatives of the species have become extinct of about 10 thousand years ago during the Vistula Ice Age.

Elephant - Representative of the family of mammals, trades of probable. It is the largest land animal. The lifespan of the elephant is equal to human and reaches an average of 70 years. it sole representative The world of fauna who does not know how to jump. Surprisingly, such a major and robust animal can develop an impressive speed when running (about 30 km / h). In addition, elephants swim quite well. They can overcome water the distance in tens of kilometers. At the same time, the animals do not need a long sleep - four hours of rest on the day they are enough.

Comparison

Let's start with the fact that the average growth of the prehistoric animal was about 2 meters, and the weight reached 900 kg. These indicators are quite comparable to the parameters of modern elephants. However, there were subspecies of mammoths in about 4-6 meters and weighing up to 12 tons. The body, head and trunk of the animal were covered with thick wool light brown or yellowish-brown shade. Great-developed mammalian glands increased the thermal insulation properties of its fur. 8-10 centimeter subcutaneous fat layer also perfectly defended the beast from the cold. On a large pointed head of the mammoth, huge bents were conquered, the length of which sometimes reached 4 meters. It is believed that they were used not only for self-defense considerations, but also in order to extract food. With their help, the animals were drilled by the bark from the trees, the food was filled under the thick layer of ice, etc.

Another difference of mammoth from the elephant is the size of the ears. In extinct animals, they were small (about 30 cm long) and tightly pressed against the head. While the ears of the elephant are honesting to the side. Their length on average is 180 cm. It is also worth noting that the trunk and the tail of the Mammoth were significantly shorter than the elephant. On the back of the prehistoric animal there was a hump in which fat reserves were accumulated. High Mammoth's teeth with a large number of thin dentino-enamel plates were adapted to penetrate rough vegetable feed. The legs of the animals had a very thick (practically rog-like) sole, in the diameter, reaching 50 cm. The footsteps of their modern conifers are characterized by special sensitivity. Thanks to the thick "pillows" located on them, they move almost silently.

A more complete answer to the question is what the difference between the mammoth and an elephant will help find a comparative table.