Mammoth

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A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, 
the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long 
curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene Epoch from around 4.8 
million years ago, into the Holocene at about 4,500 years ago.^[1][2] The word mammoth comes from the Russian 
мамонт mamont, probably in turn from the Vogul (Mansi) language, mang ont, meaning "earth horn".^[3]