Mammoths, also known by their genus name Mammuthus, the "Mammon's Horn," may appear to be a fuzzy elephant, but puberty hit this one hard. Like its modern cousins, mammoths were quite large creatures, with the tallest of them reaching four meters tall with a weight of eight tonnes. Both genders possessed long, curving tusks, unlike their modern relatives. Legends and mystique surrounded the mammoth as far back as the 1600s, for many claimed to have seen the mammoth in all its furry glory. Thanks to cold climates, mammoths were incredibly well-preserved, and some bodies even bleed upon excavation. Living during the Pliocene to the early Holocene, the mammoth walked the Earth for almost five million years across North America, Europe, and Asia. Depending on the location, mammoths' diets differed from one another but were unified in their love for plants. They must have had some mean gardens. American mammoths were grazers that fed on trees and shrubs; others ate herbs and grasses. Baby Siberian mammoths ate the dung of the adults due to soft baby teeth that could not chew grass at the time. Climate change and over-hunting are blamed for the extinction of this hairy creature. However, science might yet prove that extinction does not have to be forever as de-extinction efforts are focusing on the mammoth.