Mammoth Mammoths were a species of proboscidean mammal native to Earth in human ity ' s prehistory . They evolved from elephant s which migrated from Africa to the north and adapted to Europe , Northern Asia including Russia , and North America in the Ice Age . Human prehistory . Around 100 , 000 BC , Martha Jones watched herds of mammoths while the Tenth Doctor went to retrieve the bodies of Modrikanian s who had died in a crash on Earth . ( PROSE : " Snowglobe 7 " ) Nimrod ' s Neanderthal tribe herded mammoths " sunward to find new grazing . " ( TV : " Ghost Light " ) According to the Fourth Doctor , the Neanderthals could knock up a good Mammoth casserole . ( PROSE : " The Romance of Crime " ) While being pursued by the Trod s through time , the Second Doctor visited prehistoric Earth , where he used his recorder to befriend a herd of mammoths and get them to destroy the Trods ' power supply . ( COMIC : " Pursued by the Trods " ) The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler on a visit to prehistoric Earth encountered a mammoth killed by a Hy - Bractor . ( PROSE : " Only Human " ) After being flung back in time by a Time Cube , the Fourth Doctor , Sarah Jane Smith and Dr . Bhoul encountered a caveman and a raging mammoth . ( PROSE : " The Time Snatch " ) Circa 35 , 000 years ago , the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams visit the future site of Los Angeles , California , where the TARDIS becomes stuck in a tar pit . A mammoth was also stuck in the tar pit with them . ( COMIC : " The Doctor and the Nurse " ) There was a picture of a mammoth in Malohkeh ' s database . ( TV : " Cold Blood " ) Modern times . King George III of the United Kingdom received the last mammoth in Europe as a gift from Catherine II of Russia . ( PROSE : " Grass " , " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , " The Book of the War " , COMIC : " Political Animals " ) In 1782 , during a night of drinking with the Eighth Doctor , Scarlette claimed that she had once ridden George III ' s mammoth . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) As late as 1804 , Thomas Jefferson believed that woolly mammoths still roamed the North America n midwest and even sent an expedition to find one . ( PROSE : " Grass " , " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) In 1894 , a spaceship containing temporal radiation exploded near the London Zoo , devolving one of its elephant s to a mammoth . ( PROSE : " The Evolution Episode " ) When Professor Grisenko discovered Skaldak encased in ice in 1983 , he thought that he was a mammoth . ( TV : " Cold War " ) In 2010 , woolly mammoths were some of the prehistoric creatures brought into Sydney by chronal wave s caused by the SKARDIS . ( COMIC : " The Age of Ice " ) In the same year , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond encountered an alien spaceship disguised as a mammoth in New York City . ( PROSE : " The Forgotten Army " ) Alternate timelines . In an alternate timeline , the Silurian s brought back the mammoths , raising them for food and allowing them to roam the mountains of Earth . ( PROSE : " Blood Heat " ) In another alternate timeline , an American news anchor told her audience that the Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill had a " personal mammoth " , and that he returned to the Buckingham Senate atop it . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Other planets . A zoo on an Earth - like planet exhibited a mammoth or a mammoth - like creature . ( COMIC : " The Didus Expedition " ) The Junlangis of Dellah were white , mammoth - like creatures . ( PROSE : " Twilight of the Gods " ) Yahoomer ' s species resembled orange mammoths with four trunks . ( PROSE : " The Monsters Inside " ) K9 once encountered some mammoths on an unnamed planet in another dimension , partially inhabited by ex - Tellac miner s . They lived alongside other Earth animals from widely varying periods of evolution ary history . On this planet , he observed one fighting a sabre - toothed tiger . ( PROSE : " K9 and the Missing Planet " ) Due to a fracture in time caused by the Time War , mammoths on Traxis coexisted with dinosaur s , neanderthal s and robot s . ( COMIC : " Weapons of Past Destruction " )