is frozen woolly mammoth a fossil
Woolly Mammoth Fossils. PLEISTOCENE PERIOD: 250,000 - 10,000 years ago. Emerging 55 million years ago, the group of mammals called Proboscideans are identified by the presence of tusks and a trunk and include mammoths, mastodons and elephants.t is believed that the end of the last Ice Age and the warming of the Earth caused the Woolly mammoths to die out at the end of the Pleistocene Period. The DNA of an extinct wooly mammoth is 95% identical to an Indian elephant.