A mammoth
was first scientifically described by the German scientist Johann Friedrich
Blumenbach in 1799. These giants lived in Eurasia and North America in the
Quaternary period 250-10 thousand years ago, during the great glaciations. In
Russia researchers found not only skeletons of mammoths but also mummies frozen
in the permafrost. Scientists often find fossil bones of these giant animals in
Moscow and Moscow region.