Extinct "woolly" animals

Usage examples of mammoths.

A few others were busy with activities Ayla was not familiar with, but the rest of the people were putting the skeletal remains of mammoths into pits that had been dug in the ground.

But the mammoths they hunted contributed only a small portion of the bones they used.

Woolly rhinoceroses, who usually gathered only in family groups, and the larger herds of woolly mammoths ranged farther, but in winter they stayed north.

As massive and majestic as woolly mammoths were, the Mamutoi feeling for them went beyond wonder at their size.

To create the design, they first brought up large numbers of the same skeletal parts of many mammoths from the bone pile below.

Southeast of the entrance was a fence made of seven skulls of mammoths plus other bones, filled in with hard-packed clay to make it solid.

I know most of us like to use a larger spear with the shaped points Wymez developed for hunting mammoths, but this throwing weapon has some real advantages.

There was a certain relief in sighting the mammoths, as well as excitement.

The mammoths could decide to move away, or the weather could change again.

Late summer lightning storms had set enough dry fields on fire that even massive mammoths, who feared little, had a healthy respect for it.

The rest, primarily the fastest, strongest runners -- for all their great bulk, mammoths were capable of great bursts of speed for short distances -- would split into two groups, to circle around both sides of the herd.

Brecie began explaining some traits and vulnerabilities of mammoths and how to hunt them to the younger hunters, who had not hunted the great shaggy beasts before.

Everyone was concentrating on the mammoths, fervently hoping that the hunt would be successful.

The mammoths noticed the fire first, not only the smell of burning grass, but of scorched earth and smoldering brush -- the familiar smell of a prairie fire and even more threatening.

She noticed Jondalar was already on Racer, following close behind the retreating mammoths, and hurried after him.