I think history always progresses. We learn from mistakes made in the past, and we are always coming up with new things. I think an elephant is much better than a mammoth. Elephants did evolve from mammoths, so I think that makes them better in the first place. Elephants also have a really good memory. I don't know if mammoths had good memories because they lived so many years ago. I think that both were obviously able to adapt to their environment. The woolly mammoth had its hair along with a thick layer of fat to keep it warm. Elephant skin actually has little tiny hairs on it, but it is nothing like the hair that the woolly mammoth had. Elephant skin is also extremely tough and thick. According to wikipedia, the mammoth may have used its tusks to dig off snow to reach the plants underneath. Elephants use their tusks to dig for water, salt and roots. They are only occasionally used as weapons when the elephants guard their territory. Another thing that I find interesting is that mammoths have small ears compared to elephants. According to wikipedia, elephants use their ears to keep their temperature regulated. They flap their ears to cool off the blood vessels in their ears, which cools their whole body down.
I think that to make an accurate decision on whether mammoths are better than elephants I would have to see them both. A scientist in Japan says that he will extract mammoth DNA that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo. They are hoping to have one withing six years. I think history does progress, and even though an elephant and a mammoth might be different is some ways, they are mostly the same which isn't necessarily progress, but it isn't becoming any worse.
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