The Natural History Museum www.nhm.ac.uk
The Natural History Museum is the UK's national museum of natural history and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity. This website has a wide range of information for mammoth enthusiasts.
Siberian Mammoths www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/siberia
Part of the American Museum of Natural History's site looking at the last place on Earth where woolly mammoths survived – on an island in the Arctic Ocean where mammoths held on until about 3,700 years ago.
Books for adults
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 million years of mammalian evolution in Europe by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton (Columbia University Press, 2002)
Ranging from the period of the extinction of the dinosaurs, this book tells of the many other wondrous beasts that have walked the Earth, including the sabre tooth cats.
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The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age mammals disappeared by P D Ward (Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 1999)
Looks at the reasons for mass extinctions, focussing primarily on the fate of the mammoth.
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Book for children
Wild and Woolly Mammals by Aliki (William Morrow, 1998)
This illustrated educational book for children describes the prehistoric world of the woolly mammoth, how they were able to survive the ice age, and how Stone Age humans hunted them for food, tools and shelter.
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