Mammuthus Meridionalis Skeletons

A species that lived in the Lower Pleistocene, widespread in Europe and Asia, they arrived in North America by means of the Bering Bridge. The size of these examples is incredible, 4 meters in height by six in length, with a weight of approximately ten tonnes. They looked similar to today’s elephants, with very long tusks and a different inclination of the back, in addition to large molar teeth which they used for shredding great quantities of vegetation. This species was gradually substituted, due to climate change, by the Mammuthus trogontherii, known as the steppe mammoth, which gave rise to the evolutionary process of the mammoth of collective imagination, or Mammuthus primigenius that lived about three hundred thousand years ago.