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woolly mammoth
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woolly mammoth
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A Pleistocene mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) once widespread in the cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Noun1.woolly mammoth - very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemispherewoolly mammoth - very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere
mammoth - any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks


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Top of the pile was a wooly mammoth created by Paul Grant from Boston, Lincolnshire.
London, October 5 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have analyzed the ancient remains of a baby wooly mammoth that died after being sucked into a muddy river bed 40,000 years ago, to reveal prehistoric secrets of how the species survived in its icy habitat.
Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), this great movie follows a prehistoric civilisation which lives off the land and the wooly mammoths, until a rampaging band of raiders steal the men and women of the tribe.
 
 
 
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