Boltunov mammoth

The Woolly Mammoth

By Larissa Murphy
  • 1400 BCE

    1400 B.C.E.

    It is thought that the last remaining groups of woolly mammoths disappeared around this time.

  • 1806

    The first Woolly Mammoth skeleton was brought to the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia where it was completed.

  • 2013

    2013
    The best preserved carcass of a female woolly mammoth was found in an ice tomb in Russia.

  • 1799

    1799
    The first fully documented Woolly Mammoth skeleton was discovered.