Is a wooly mammoth a dinosaur?

Woolly mammoths are a type of elephant, which is a mammal, whereas dinosaurs are reptiles. Dinosaurs are defined by certain skeletal characteristics, namely, 3 or more vertebra in the hips, specialized hands and ankles, a diapsid skull, and a... read more

Woolly mammoths are a type of elephant, which is a mammal, whereas dinosaurs are reptiles. Dinosaurs are defined by certain skeletal characteristics, namely, 3 or more vertebra in the hips, specialized hands and ankles, a diapsid skull, and a backwards facing shoulder blade. read more

The exception was a small population of Woolly Mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, until 1700 B.C. Since they subsisted on extremely limited resources, Wrangel Island Mammoths grew to much smaller sizes than their Woolly Mammoth relatives, and are often referred to as dwarf elephants. read more

(Mammoths and elephants are members of a group called Elephantidae). Mammoths first appeared a few million years ago and went extinct a few thousand years ago. Dinosaurs on the other hand are reptiles (but not ''lizards'' or any modern day sprawling creature). Many types of dinosaur went extinct about 65 million years ago. read more