When we use the word “mammoth’ today, we mean something that is huge or colossal. But there actually was an animal that lived long ago that is called the “mammoth.” It was a kind of elephant that is now extinct and that lived in many different parts of the world during the Stone Age.

Even though this ancient type of elephant is called the “mammoth,” it was about the same size as the Indian elephant that exists today. It had a kind of pointed skull and very unusual tusks curved in a spiral with the tips pointing to each other.