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Elephants are the largest living animals____ land. More than 500 different kinds of elephants have been found on earth during the _
_ 55 million years. Only two kinds are __
___ alive today. The African Elephant and the Asian ( or Indian ) Elephant. These elephants can only be found in __
___ places. The older kinds, which lived a long time ago, lived in colder places. An ___
__ is the mammoths----the largest hairy elephants. Mammoths were about the size of the largest living elephant, which is about seven __
___. Unlike the elephants today, mammoths had ___
__ or dark brown hair covering their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks(象牙), and we can __
___ this from their fossil teeth.
Scientists found out about most of the extinct(绝迹) animals by studying the fossils, such as their bones and teeth that have been found. However, mammoths are quite different.
During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered _____ in the ice. The ice kept them well. While many animals only left behind bones and teeth, scientists found the whole body of the mammoth. __
___ the whole mammoth has been kept well, scientists can see even the hair, the tusks and the whole body.