woolly mammoth

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of woolly mammoth¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Whatever the name, bringing back some version of a woolly mammoth sounds like its coming straight out of Jurassic Park.

From Science News For Students

It’s almost been a decade since Harvard geneticist George Church first talked about using synthetic biology to bring woolly mammoths back to life.

From Popular-Science

In Pig, a strange and wonderful movie as direct as its stubby little title, Cage plays a hermit, a woolly mammoth of a man who lives alone, or nearly alone, in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

From Time

On its website, for instance, visitors can peruse or download free, 3-D scans of everything from the Apollo 11 command module to a complete woolly mammoth skeleton.

From Science News

Now, we think the Columbian mammoths likely obtained their mitochondria by reproducing with woolly mammoth females.

From Singularity Hub 

An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?

From The Daily Beast

Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

From The Daily Beast

Did she learn from the New York 23rd District election that being a moderate Republican is a lot like being a woolly mammoth?

From The Daily Beast

The characteristic tundra animal is the reindeer, though musk-ox, woolly mammoth, and others were wide-spread at this time.

From Project Gutenberg

About these lost lowlands wandered herds of the woolly mammoth.

From Project Gutenberg

Arrival of the tundra fauna, the reindeer, the woolly mammoth, and the woolly rhinoceros.

From Project Gutenberg

It was associated with bones of the woolly mammoth, the rhinoceros, the reindeer, and a few fragments of other human bones.

From Project Gutenberg