These crazy elephant relos once lived all over the world, including Eurasia and North America and weighed over 9 tonnes - that's a hefty heifer! Their huge tusks could get up to five metres long (scientists reckon they used them to plow snow away from tasty plants underneath) and they were classed as megafauna, which basically means: huge animal dudes!

When the last Ice Age finished (that's 10,000 years ago!), the world got a bit too toasty for these guys. With fur up to a metre long, anything above zero degrees is going to feel pretty balmy. They eventually became extinct, leaving their tropical cousins (elephants) behind to represent!

Check out all the Ice Age 4: Continental Drift hilarity and K-Zone's interview with Manny, the world's most chilled-out mammoth.

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	ripper	there are some that live in the centre of the Earth	05 Aug 2012
	flash 34	wow i always wondered what happened to mammoths	14 Jul 2012

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