Definition of woolly mammoth
: a heavy-coated mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) formerly inhabiting the colder parts of the northern hemisphere
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For starters, unlike the woolly mammoth, the northern white rhino is not extinct — yet.
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Five-year building plans have gone the way of dinosaurs, dodo birds and woolly mammoths.
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Something as spectacular as reviving the woolly mammoth deserved better.
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Males were more likely to die in natural traps such as tar pits, ice lakes, mudflows, and bogs, according to a new study in Current Biology of DNA extracted from 98 fossilized woolly mammoths found across the Siberian landscape.
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In earlier research, Frietson Galis, one of the authors on the latest study, and colleagues found that woolly mammoths also had cervical ribs more frequently than expected.
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The most intact woolly mammoth skeleton ever found was sold Saturday at a mammoth price — about $645,000.
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The program’s website currently includes 51 virtual models ranging from a woolly mammoth fossil to an Abraham Lincoln life mask.
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In addition, Galis and other colleagues found similar evidence of high incidence of cervical ribs in woolly mammoths from around the same place in 2014.
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First Known Use of woolly mammoth
1874
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: an extinct mammal that was a heavy-coated mammoth of cold northern regions
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