--- title: Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… # Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos Lesson 272 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/0/) — In the cartoon «Ice Age» a mammoth, a sabre-toothed cat and a ground sloth travel together, and all three were real animals, though they never talked and the sloth was far bigger than the cartoon one. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/1/) — Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than an African elephant, with long hair, small ears and curly tusks: small ears and thick fur keep heat in, just as a woolly hat and earmuffs do. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/2/) — The frozen ground of Siberia works like a giant freezer, and in 2007 it gave up Lyuba, a baby mammoth about a month old, so well kept that there was still milk in her stomach. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/3/) — Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used every part; in Ukraine, at Mezhyrich, they built huts out of mammoth bones from dozens of animals. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/4/) — Almost everywhere people arrived, the giants vanished within a few thousand years, while the climate was also changing; elephants, rhinos and hippos in Africa are survivors of that age of giants. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/5/) — Woolly mammoths were a bit smaller than African elephants, with long hair, small ears and curly tusks; the last lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt already stood. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/6/) — Lyuba, a baby mammoth about one month old, was found in Siberian permafrost, ground that stays frozen all year, in 2007 with her skin, trunk and even milk in her stomach kept. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/7/) — Ice Age people hunted mammoths and used their bones, tusks and skins; at Mezhyrich in Ukraine they built huts from the bones of dozens of mammoths. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/8/) — Mammoths died out as the climate warmed, their grassy steppe shrank and people hunted them; most scientists think both causes worked together, and island groups lasted longest. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/9/) — Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat, had canine teeth about 18 centimetres long and a powerful neck; it was not a tiger but a cat from a separate branch. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/10/) — At the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles animals got stuck in sticky tar, predators came to eat them and got stuck too, so the pits hold many more meat-eaters than plant-eaters, including thousands of Smilodon bones. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/11/) — Megatherium was a ground sloth as big as an elephant in South America; it stood on its hind legs to reach leaves with its long claws and died out about 10,000 years ago. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/12/) — Glyptodon was an armadillo relative with a shell as big as a small car, a plant-eater; early people in South America may have used empty shells as shelters. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/13/) — The woolly rhinoceros had thick fur and a flat front horn up to a metre long, and cave painters in France drew it more than 30,000 years ago. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/14/) — The cave bear was bigger than a brown bear and mostly ate plants; the giant deer called the Irish elk had antlers about 3.5 metres across, grown new each year, and was neither only Irish nor really an elk. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/15/) — In Australia, Diprotodon, a wombat relative as big as a hippo, and giant kangaroos lived until about 40,000 years ago and died out after people arrived. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/16/) — Africa kept more of its big animals, perhaps because they grew up alongside people and learned to fear them. - ← previous: [The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)