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Tusk of a mammoth
Sven Traenkner, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung2017-09-21
Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The massive, curved tusks are characteristic for theses ice-age elephants. The mammoth possibly used its tusks mainly for its search for food under the thick snow cover. The tusk shown here weighs about 45 kilograms.
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- Title: Tusk of a mammoth
- Creator: Sven Traenkner, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
- Date Created: 2017-09-21
- Location: Bensheim an der Bergstrasse, Hesse, Germany
- Rights: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
- scientific name: <i>Mammutus primigenius<i>
- geological Age: Pleistocene
- age: 20,000 years
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