.woolly mammoths were very large elephat-like creaturtes coverep during the last ice age. day became extinct thousanbs of years ago.ln piacessuch as sideria,in russia,thousands of woolly mammopha pecame mummies after they pue.today ,some of these frozen mummies can be found in very good condition.one person who has spent many years studying wootty mammoths is the french exptorer buigues to find the mammoths buigues relies on tribes that live in the frozen areas where the creatures once lived one of these tribes the dolgans live on siberia s frozen taimyr peninsula the dotgans knew of many places where frozen woolly mammoths could be found and often used mammoths tusks for tools ln 1998 the dotgans led buigues to an almost perfectly preserved mammoth the following year buigues organised an expedition to dig the mammoth out fo the ground and take it to a special laboratory to be studind the biggest challenge was to remove the mammoh from the ice so thah it took six weeks to dig around the mammoth to cut out a 20 tonne block fo ice at the end of october a helicopter arrived and carried the block 320 kilometres to the laboratory because of this expedition the world will have a greater understanding of these huge anlmals