The woolly mammoth was an extinct species of mammoth. This species existed during the Pleistocene period and lasted until the Holocene extinction, approximately 40,000 years ago. Although the woolly mammoth is the last of the mammoth species, it was the most widely distributed. This mammoth was the last of its species to live before the Mammuthus subplanifrons species appeared in the early Pliocene. The woolly mammoth's blubbery body kept it warm...