Mammoths are coming to the Norwegian Glacier Museum!

The Ice Age animals are finally coming home to the Norwegian Glacier Museum. This is part of an educational playground outside the museum. There will be speakers, fun entertainment and exciting surprises at the opening.

The woolly mammoth was a species of mammoth that lived in the northernmost regions of Eurasia and North America from about 5 million years ago until the end of the last ice age about 11,000 years ago. Thanks to the discovery of frozen and dried carcasses, this is the prehistoric animal species that is best known, both in terms of appearance and lifestyle. In addition to whole carcasses, large quantities of entire skeletons, tusks, teeth, stomach contents and feces have been found. Several finds have also been made in Norway, almost all in Gudbrandsdalen.

The extinction of the woolly mammoth was due to the loss of their habitat at the same time as modern humans encroached on the remaining areas in search of prey. As large animals with slow reproduction, mammoths were vulnerable to hunting pressure and became extinct in both Eurasia and North America at the end of the last ice age.