真猛犸象

📖 1. 概览

凭借最长可达4.2米的弯曲象牙和长毛抵御冰期严寒的新生代代表性长鼻目巨型哺乳动物。

🌐 Wikipedia 摘要摘录

The woolly mammoth is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with the African Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. The woolly mammoth began to diverge from the steppe mammoth about 800,000 years ago in Siberia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. The Columbian mammoth lived alongside the woolly mammoth in North America, and DNA studies show that the two hybridised with each other. Mammoth remains were long known in Asia before they became known to Europeans. The origin of these remains was long debated and often explained as the remains of legendary creatures. The mammoth was identified as an extinct elephant species by Georges Cuvier in 1796.

🦴 2. 身体结构与特征

它演化出了减少热量散失的小耳朵，以及专门适应低温氧气输送的血红蛋白。

🔍 3. 化石记录与古生态

通过西伯利亚永久冻土层的冷冻标本，已完成其全基因组（Genome）测序。

🇰🇷 4. 与韩国的关联

在咸镜北道吉州郡、东海海底以及全罗北道扶安均出土过真猛犸象的臼齿和象牙化石。