Mamoswine. I always found it odd that, for some reason, GF decided to take a hairy pig and tried to make it into the pig equivalent of a mammoth. Like, aside from being woolly, what did the Swinub family have any relation to an ancestor of elephants? Like, why not give the mammoth evo to the Phanpy family?
Well, I think I may have found my answer. The first reconstruction drawing of a mammoth was done in the early 1800s by a Russian merchant named Roman Boltunov, who bought its ivory tusks from a Northern Russian reindeer farmer named Ossip Shumachov who just so happened to find the mammoth after it melted out from the ice. Shumachov led Boltunov to where the mammoth was, which by then had been badly damaged by the wild animals (and Shumachov's dogs) who ate most of the meat leaving only a mound of hair and fat. Still, Boltunov took measurements and then made a crude drawing of what he thought it would have looked like in its prime:
Look familiar?
Note: The drawings were sent to the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences where a botanist named Mikhail Adams noted it was very inaccurate though still published the picture in a science journal. Adams would later go with a team to retrieve what was left of the mammoth which, at the time, was the most complete mammoth specimen. Named "Adams Mammoth", it still stands on display at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
Here's an article on the story.
Well, I think I may have found my answer. The first reconstruction drawing of a mammoth was done in the early 1800s by a Russian merchant named Roman Boltunov, who bought its ivory tusks from a Northern Russian reindeer farmer named Ossip Shumachov who just so happened to find the mammoth after it melted out from the ice. Shumachov led Boltunov to where the mammoth was, which by then had been badly damaged by the wild animals (and Shumachov's dogs) who ate most of the meat leaving only a mound of hair and fat. Still, Boltunov took measurements and then made a crude drawing of what he thought it would have looked like in its prime:
Look familiar?
Note: The drawings were sent to the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences where a botanist named Mikhail Adams noted it was very inaccurate though still published the picture in a science journal. Adams would later go with a team to retrieve what was left of the mammoth which, at the time, was the most complete mammoth specimen. Named "Adams Mammoth", it still stands on display at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
Here's an article on the story.