Fossil Woolly Mammoth tooth on a handmade stand - Fossil...

Beautiful original complete tusk of a woolly mammoth on a handmade wooden pedestal. This tusk was recovered from a part of the North Sea that used to be Doggerland. Doggerland, also known as the “Atlantis of the North Sea,” was a vast area that connected England with continental Europe. This area was inhabited by humans for nearly a million years. During the Ice Ages, when sea level was low, Doggerland lay dry and was a fertile hunting ground for Neanderthals and later modern humans. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct elephant species that lived during the Pleistocene (the Last Ice Age). The mammoth was well adapted to cold climates with its thick coat of long hair, ranging from blond and red-brown to dark brown and black. They also had a thick layer of fat for extra insulation. Woolly mammoths stood about 2.7 to 3.4 meters tall, comparable to the modern African elephant. They lived in herds on the sprawling mammoth steppe, a cold, dry grassland that stretched from Europe to North America.

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