FL RESPONDS, SURE, HOW MUCH 40,000 YR OLD mammoth ivory do you have on hand. Who do you buy it from, what is it's cost. Would not something that old now be dried out and brittle and easy to crack and fracture. You are telling me Ivory does not dry out and then have major problems when it does. This is not about this being legal or not, my point was if all use of the material stops, elephants will no longer be killed for their teeth because there will be no market for their teeth, can we focus on that and stay on that subject.
Most of this stuff they come up with today is in Siberia.
Three species of mammoths (genus Mammuthus) lived on the mainland of the United States at the end of the last Ice Age. These were the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi), Jefferson's mammoth (M. jeffersonii), and the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius). Of these, Jefferson's mammoth and the woolly mammoth have been identified from the midwestern U.S.
Mammoths, mastodons and modern elephants, are members of the order Proboscidea. The mammoths are closely related to elephants, especially to the Indian elephant (Elephas maximus).
As adults mammoths stood between about 3 and 3.7 meters (10-12 feet) at the shoulder and weighed betweeen 5500 and 7300 kilograms (6-8 tons).
Their teeth were comprised of numerous enamel plates. As they were used, these plates were ground into a washboard-like surface. This surface was very effective for grinding up difficult to eat plants like grass.
Mammoths are frequently found as fossils in the midwestern U.S. Most often isolated teeth are found. Mammoth fossils are most common in areas that were covered by savannas, grasslands, or tundra during the last Ice Age. This map shows some of the important mammoth finds in the region.
Approximately 1.8 million years ago the first mammoths entered North America. These mammoths came from Eurasia; they crossed the Bering Strait at a time when sea level was lower than today. The mammoths that came from Asia belonged to a species called M. meridionalis. The descendants of this species of mammoth included both the Columbian and Jefferson's mammoths. The woolly mammoths evolved in Eurasia and came over the Bering Strait much later (less than 500,000 years ago). Approximately 10,000 years ago all species of mammoths went extinct in North America
