Woolly mammoth

The hairy elephant is a species of elephant often with long curved tusks and a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch from 4.8 million years ago to around 3,500 years ago throughout the world. However, the species went extinct everywhere but in North America. When Europeans arrived in in the New World, they quickly saw the potential for the hairy elephant as a source of labor. The hair elephant was used to power the railroads of North America until the middle 18th century.