In pictures: Mammoths of the ice age

Unlike dinosaurs and other prehistoric mammals, mastodons and mammoths lived side by side with humans for thousands of years. The last mammoths survived on the remote Wrangel Island in the Arctic Sea until just 4,000 years ago. Mammoths and mastodons proved to be a source of food for early people as well as artistic inspiration. This depiction of a mammoth, painted on the walls of Rouffignac cave in France, dates back 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.

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