Talk:Mammoth
From Academic Kids
Does anyone have information about the newly discovered "Mammoth" in Nepal? -- Ydd, Sunday, July 14, 2002
- It was just a normal asian elephant with big bumps on its head.
Nepal became some more tourist advertisment because of the "sensational" mammoth.
- Seems like a taxonomy error here: The present link from Mammutidae in the taxonomy box, goes to Mammoths, which was a genus within the family elephantidae, as far as I understand.
- From my own website:"The genus mammoths, in latin Mammuthus, was a group of species, belonging to the family of elephants, entirely separated in taxonomy from the Mastodons and the genus family Mammutidae, although they sometimes shared the same envoronment. (For scientific reasons, the mastodons was renamed to family Mammutidae, which became a source for future confusion and misunderstandings)."
- I will not change this however, until someone else gives me confirmation or debate, since I may be wrong.
- Dan Koehl 13:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) http://www.elephant.se
