00:12They're big, they're strong, they're...
00:15Wait a minute, I thought mammoths were extinct.
00:17Yet, they lived among us as little as 11,000 years ago.
00:21They're part of the species scientifically known as Mathemus meridianus, or simply, the mammoths.
00:27And even though the woolly mammoth was smaller than another species known as the Columbian mammoth, it was still an
00:33impressive beast.
00:36Good one.
00:37It stood 11 and a half feet, or 3.5 meters high at the shoulder.
00:41It weighed between 6 and 8 tons, and consumed an average of 300 kilograms, or more than 650 pounds of
00:48vegetation daily.
00:49Which means the woolly mammoth spent much of the day looking for food, or foraging.
00:54Hey, do we do any special tricks, or do we just throw our weight around?
00:58Oops!
01:00The appearance of the mammoth resembled today's elephants, but had smaller ears, larger tusks, was fatter, and covered in long,
01:07reddish-brown hair.
01:08I'm not fat. It's this far that makes me look big. It's poofy.
01:13Controversy abounds in the scientific community as to why the mammoth became extinct.
01:18Some believe it was caused by the arrival of mankind into the North American territory, and that they were hunted
01:23into extinction.
01:25Others believe it was the great climatic change that took place, known as the Ice Age meltdown, that altered or
01:31reduced the available food source.
01:33Thus, the woolly mammoth simply starved to death.
01:36Story time's over. The end.
01:38But could the mammoth make a comeback?
01:41Some discovered mammoth specimens were found not in fossils, but frozen in the Canadian Arctic and Siberia.
01:47The tissues of these long-lost creatures could possibly be cloned.
01:52Only time will tell.
01:55Dr.
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