Everything Dinosaur has commissioned an illustration of a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). The drawing will be used to help create a fact sheet.  The fact sheet will contain a Columbian mammoth scale drawing.

This prehistoric elephant roamed North America during the Pleistocene.  It is known from numerous fossils, and it is thought that the last of these giant herbivores died out around 10,900 years ago.  As a result, it one of the last North American megafauna to have become extinct.

M. columbi evolved from Mammuthus trogontherii (steppe mammoth) that migrated into North America from Asia during the Early Pleistocene Epoch. The extant Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is the Columbian mammoth’s closest living relative.

Everything Dinosaur has commissioned an illustration of a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). This prehistoric elephant roamed North America during the Pleistocene Epoch. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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The Columbian mammoth is one of the largest mammoth species known.  Males had a shoulder height in excess of four metres.  A large, adult male could weigh more than twelve tonnes.  As such, the Columbian mammoth was much larger that the contemporary Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).

Why Produce a Columbian Mammoth Scale Drawing?

Why commission a Columbian mammoth scale drawing?  Mike from Everything Dinosaur explained that with the imminent arrival of the new for 2025 Eofauna Mammuthus columbi figure, a scale drawing was required for the Everything Dinosaur fact sheet.  This fact sheet will be sent out free to customers.

Mike added:

“The Eofauna Columbian mammoth model will be in stock soon.  We wanted to prepare a fact sheet in plenty to time so that it was ready to be despatched with the first orders for this new figure.”

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