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imperial mammoth

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Noun1.imperial mammothimperial mammoth - largest known mammoth; of America    
Archidiskidon imperator, imperial elephant
mammoth - any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
Archidiskidon, genus Archidiskidon - a genus of Elephantidae


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Bruce Lander, one of the main paleontologists coordinating the recovery efforts, said the jaw of an imperial mammoth was found in Simi Valley in the early 1900s.
'MOORPARK MAMMOTH' FOUND DURING CONSTRUCTION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Joseph Bronze has cast a statue of a life-size Imperial Mammoth (23 x 15 ft.
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While there are gobs of dark brown skeletons on display (the bones dyed by the tar that imprisoned them) ranging in size from the smallest birds to the fiercest tigers to the biggest mastodons (the most impressive is the imperial mammoth, more than 13 feet tall, with two giant tusks that extend out over visitors' heads), there are a few that help flesh out the story behind the bones.
TRAVEL TALES : WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER FINE MESS.. by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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