African Mammoth

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Homo habilis hunters using stone tools on the plains of the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania, Africa.

They are thought to have lived approximately 2 to 1.6 million years ago in East Africa, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period.

They had a brain size just less than half that of modern humans.

The name Homo habilis means 'handy man', adopted because the species used primitive stone tools.

by Mauricio Anton 

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African mammoth
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African mammoth (Mammuthus subplanifrons Osborn, 1928)



Order: Proboscidea

Family: Elephantidae

Dimensions: length - 5,5 m, height - 3,5 m, weight - 8 000 kg

Expansion: during the early Pliocene (endemic Africa)

Mammuthus subplanifrons, or the African mammoth, is the oldest representative of the genus Mammuthus, appearing around 5 million years ago during the early Pliocene in what is today South Africa and countries of East Africa, especially Ethiopia. They already presented some of the unique characteristics of mammoths like the spirally, twisting tusks.