woolly mammoth

American  

noun

1. a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.

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Etymology

Origin of woolly mammoth

First recorded in 1965–70

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woolly mammoth

It has publicised its efforts to use similar cutting edge genetic techniques to bring back extinct animals including the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

But in the meantime, the bizarre case reminds me of something else: the well-publicized and often-lauded project to recreate a woolly mammoth, undertaken by a private biotech company called Colossal Biosciences.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

George Church, a biologist at Harvard Medical School, started trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth more than a decade ago.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

For example, they believe that the woolly mammoth went extinct because the cold mammoth steppe largely disappeared.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023

But he was obviously a purebred Rottweiler, except of course that he was twice the size of a woolly mammoth, mostly invisible, and had three heads.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan