On a visit to the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge we spotted some baby Mammuthus primigenius teeth on display.  Alongside the teeth was a familiar prehistoric animal figure.  It was a Woolly Mammoth model.  The figure is part of the Wild Safari Prehistoric World range.  The fossil teeth from a very young Woolly Mammoth were found in a gravel pit near Barnwell (Cambridgeshire).  Many fossils have been found in the Pleistocene gravels at Barnwell.  The site has been extensively documented and researched.

The Wild Safari Prehistoric World baby Woolly Mammoth model spotted next to some baby Mammuthus primigenius teeth from Cambridgeshire. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The baby Woolly Mammoth figure provides a connection between the fossil teeth and the actual creature.  We smiled at seeing such a familiar model.

To view the Wild Safari Prehistoric World range of models in stock: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Figures.

The baby Mammuthus primigenius model might be small, but so are the baby Woolly Mammoth teeth.

Pleistocene deposits located in East Anglia (UK) have enabled scientists to reconstruct past environments.  Twenty thousand years ago, Cambridgeshire had a climate similar to the Arctic of today.

Cool temperate forests had been replaced by tundra. The limited food resources sustained many cold-adapted mammals including Woolly Mammoths. Fossils of these prehistoric elephants have been found in the gravels at the Barnwell site.

Mike from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“Sedgwick Museum houses a collection of Pleistocene mammal fossils.  The fossils document the fauna during both glacial and interglacial periods when it was much warmer. For example, next to the baby Mammuthus primigenius teeth exhibit, there are some much older hippopotamus fossils.”

The award-winning Everything Dinosaur website: Prehistoric Animal Models.