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The woolly mammoth — Mammuthus primigenius — is the most iconic, standing roughly 3 to 3.5 meters at the shoulder and weighing up to six tons.
But mammoths were not alone.
The Mammoth Steppe carried woolly rhinoceroses, cave lions, cave bears, spotted hyenas, giant deer with antler spans of nearly four meters, wild horses, aurochs (the wild ancestor of cattle), bison, musk oxen, and smaller prey species in enormous numbers.
The biomass of the Mammoth Steppe has been estimated at levels comparable to the great savannas of East Africa today.
This was not a marginal, difficult environment for large animals.
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