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Genus Mammuthus of extinct elephants whose
remains are found worldwide. Some were half
as tall again as existing species. The woolly
mammoth Elephas primigenius, the size of an
Indian elephant, had long fur, and large
inward-curving tusks. Mammoths were abundant
in N Europe in Pleistocene times.