What did the woolly mammoth's diet consist of?

What did giant mammals like woolly mammoths eat when they roamed the Arctic during the last ice age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals. read more

Woolly Mammoth Diet Woolly Mammoth was vegetarian and they liked to use their incisor (tusks) to excavate the snow and uproot tundra grass with its trunk. They fed to on low tundra vegetation like small plants, shrubs, grass and leftover tree parts. read more

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. The woolly mammoth diverged from the steppe mammoth about 400,000 years ago in East Asia. read more

A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals. read more