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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