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Elephants are the largest living animals____ land. More than 500 different kinds of elephants have been found on earth during the __ 55 million years. Only two kinds are _____ alive today. The African Elephant and the Asian ( or Indian ) Elephant. These elephants can only be found in _____ places. The older kinds, which lived a long time ago, lived in colder places. An _____ is the mammoths----the largest hairy elephants. Mammoths were about the size of the largest living elephant, which is about seven _____. Unlike the elephants today, mammoths had _____ or dark brown hair covering their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks(象牙), and we can _____ this from their fossil teeth.
Scientists found out about most of the extinct（绝迹） animals by studying the fossils, such as their bones and teeth that have been found. However, mammoths are quite different.
During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered _____ in the ice. The ice kept them well. While many animals only left behind bones and teeth, scientists found the whole body of the mammoth. _____ the whole mammoth has been kept well, scientists can see even the hair, the tusks and the whole body.

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