Mammoths of The Ice Age Discovery Documentary 2015 HD MAMMOTHS OF THE ICE AGE - NOVA - Discovery History Animals (documentary) MAMMOTHS OF THE ICE AGE - Discovery History Animals documentary A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,500 years ago[1][2] in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. The remains of one of the last surviving mammoths, dating 4,300 years BP (Before Present) was found on Wrangel Island, and its genome has been sequenced.[3] They were members of the family Elephantidae, which also contains the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.