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mammoths

  • During the ice age, mammoths were common throughout Earth's northern hemisphere, but then their number declined. (Jonathan Chen, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Last Woolly Mammoths
    Paul Patton
    While the first human civilizations grew in Mesopotamia, and the ancient Egyptians were building the pyraminds, there were still woolly mammoths living on a remote arctic island.