Woolly mammoth mounted skeleton

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A mounted skeleton, not a living reconstruction

Woolly mammoth mounted skeleton

This Smithsonian scan records a woolly mammoth skeleton from Pleistocene Alaska. The continuous scanned surface includes the museum mounting context; individual bones are not separate native meshes.

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At a glance

Collection: Biology
Section: Fossils & fieldwork
Model: 149,948 triangles · 0.7 MB

Model coverage and boundaries

1 web meshes; 149,948 triangles; 2 embedded image textures. Source chunks/materials are not assumed to be physical components. No exploded view is offered.

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Evidence & model coverage

1 web meshes; 149,948 triangles; 2 embedded image textures. Source chunks/materials are not assumed to be physical components. No exploded view is offered.

Changes: Geometry and materials reserialized; Draco re-encoding may discard degenerate faces. Embedded textures reduced to at most 512 pixels per dimension. Original files retained privately.

Credit: National Museum of Natural History, Paleobiology; mounted woolly mammoth from Alaska. Smithsonian 3D Digitization. Exact model and embedded texture package: CC0 1.0, verified on the item’s 3D-media usage control. Credit retained as provenance; no share-alike requirement.

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Meshes are normalized for viewing. Display size is not a measurement tool. This is an educational exterior/surface visualization; unmodeled interiors and hidden systems are not inferred.

File audit

Retrieved 16 October 2026. Original SHA-256: 1d0706ff68a3b97e706c2f7fab087527d7302d40c7b421e74092f41e1fb77b46. Original and audit evidence retained privately. Full rights entry.