Mammoths are coming to Norwegian Glacier Museum!

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

The woolly mammoth was a species of mammoth that lived in the northernmost areas of Eurasia and North America from around 5 million years ago until the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago. Thanks to the discovery of frozen and desiccated 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 skeletons, tusks, teeth, stomach contents and feces have been found. Several discoveries have also been made in Norway, almost all in Gudbrandsdalen.

The extinction of the woolly mammoth is due to the fact that their habitats disappeared at the same time as modern humans invaded the areas that remained in search of prey. Since mammoths were large animals with slow reproduction, they were vulnerable to hunting pressure and became extinct in both Eurasia and North America at the end of the last ice age.