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woolly mammoth
noun
: a heavy-coated mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) formerly inhabiting the colder parts of the northern hemisphere
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Leave a comment View Comments The research team at Colossal has already analyzed the genomes of 53 woolly mammoths from ancient DNA recovered from fossils.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
Back to the future An ambitious plan to genetically engineer a woolly mammoth — a giant that hasn’t roamed Earth in 4,000 years — has taken another step toward reality.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
Their ‘model species’ is the woolly mammoth for a number of reasons.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
The species is the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
The woolly mammoth was a big, shaggy species of elephant that roamed the tundra before going extinct thousands of years ago.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
The female whose tusk was discovered was related to a herd of other woolly mammoths who died in the same area, proving that the Swan Point site was high-density woolly mammoth habitat.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
This unusually good tribal museum bookends war, conquest, dispossession, and a new dawn with a hunt for woolly mammoths in the Ice Age and the ca-ching of slot machines at the nearby Pequot casino.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
More reads Small study adds to growing hope CAR-T cell therapy could revolutionize autoimmune disease treatment, STAT
A startup’s mission to bring back the woolly mammoth is being made into a docuseries, Wired
Does ketamine therapy help treat depression or is the drug dangerous?
—Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
Back to the future An ambitious plan to genetically engineer a woolly mammoth — a giant that hasn’t roamed Earth in 4,000 years — has taken another step toward reality.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
Their ‘model species’ is the woolly mammoth for a number of reasons.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
The species is the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
The woolly mammoth was a big, shaggy species of elephant that roamed the tundra before going extinct thousands of years ago.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
The female whose tusk was discovered was related to a herd of other woolly mammoths who died in the same area, proving that the Swan Point site was high-density woolly mammoth habitat.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
This unusually good tribal museum bookends war, conquest, dispossession, and a new dawn with a hunt for woolly mammoths in the Ice Age and the ca-ching of slot machines at the nearby Pequot casino.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
More reads Small study adds to growing hope CAR-T cell therapy could revolutionize autoimmune disease treatment, STAT
A startup’s mission to bring back the woolly mammoth is being made into a docuseries, Wired
Does ketamine therapy help treat depression or is the drug dangerous?
—Damian Garde, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
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1874, in the meaning defined above
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woolly mammoth
noun
: an extinct mammal that was a heavy-coated mammoth of cold northern regions and is known from fossils, from the drawings of prehistoric human beings, and from entire dead frozen bodies dug up in Siberia
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