woolly mammoth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of woolly mammoth
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
Steppe mammoths were an ancestor of the woolly mammoth, and this site is believed to date back to around 220,000 years ago.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024
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
Scientists have written the biography of a 14,000-year-old female woolly mammoth by analyzing the chemicals in her tusk.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
That expansion may have been responsible for the extinction of Eurasia’s woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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