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MASTODON ANIMAL AGE FREE
Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age is free with Museum admission. The wooly mammoth ate grass and sedges that grew low to the ground because there were few trees to be found in the grassy steppe landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History receives public support with local tax dollars from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, to preserve and enrich the region’s artistic and cultural heritage. Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find anywhere else. Another significant distinguishing feature between the mammoth and the mastodon was their teeth. Mastodons on the other hand had a low, long skull with small ears. The mammoth had a high, peaked head and large ears.
Like modern elephants, the mammoth's tusks were used in conjunction with its trunk to acquire food, fight with predators and other mammoths, and move things around when needed. Search from Mastodon Animal stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. At five to eight tons, and only 2.3 to 2.8 meters at the shoulder, mastodons weighed less and were shorter. Another difference between mammoths and elephants: a pair of exceedingly long tusks that curved in an exaggerated arc around its face. The mammoth's ears were smaller than the African elephant's, helping it retain body heat and minimize the risk of frostbite. Manny was a reddish-brown color, but mammoths ranged in color from black to blond and variations in between. Instead of being bare-skinned, the wooly mammoth grew very thick fur all over its body that consisted of long guard hairs and a shorter, dense undercoat. Julian Gagnon, age 6, discovered the tooth on Sept.
The wooly mammoth was about as big as an African elephant but had a couple of distinct differences from today's elephants. At first, he thought it belonged to a dinosaur, but paleontologists later found that the massive molar came from a mastodon.
Manny is a woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius), a species that lived about 200,000 years ago on the steppes of eastern Eurasia and North America.