A brand new exhibition called Mini Mammoth has opened at the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum and it answers all these questions and more.

Museum audience engagement officer Penny Packham said the exhibition was specially designed to appeal to children.

“This one is curated for children; there’s a lot of information,” she said.

“It answers all those questions you want to know about mammoths.”

Ms Packham said one interesting fact was that mammoths were more closely related to Asian elephants than Asian elephants are to African elephants.

“They’re probably the extinct animal we know most about because so many of their fossils are preserved in the permafrost,” she said.

“The last of the mammoths were still around when the pyramids were being built.”

The Mini Mammoth exhibition runs until July 22.