Are Mammut mastodons the same species as Paleomastodons?

These woolly mammoths were not closely related to mastodons. Mammoths and mastodons may have once roamed the Earth together, but they represent two distinct species of the Proboscidean family. ... Mammoths and modern elephants are closely related members of the same family (Elephantidae).

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No, they are not the same species.

Are mammoths and mastodons the same species?

Despite the superficial resemblance, mastodons were distinct from mammoths. Mastodons were shorter and stockier than mammoths with shorter, straighter tusks. Mastodons were wood browsers and their molars have pointed cones specially adapted for eating woody browse.

Are mastodons and mammoths related?

While mastodons look a lot like modern elephants, they are not closely related. The ancestors of modern elephants and mammoths went their separate ways about 5 million years ago, and mastodons branched off even earlier, about 25 million years ago.

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