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Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.

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A mastodon.

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Something very large of its kind.

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Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.

The geographical range of the mammoth was very extensive.

Interesting finds from the Stone Age, as well as remains of the mammoth, have been made.

Palaeoljthjc Transition Period (Solutr) More highly developed forms are found when the mammoth has succeeded the elephant.

It is conjectured, not without some reason, that there is a connexion, as yet undiscovered, between the Colossal and the Mammoth caves.

One classification makes three divisions for the epoch, characterized respectively by the existence of the cavebear, the mammoth and reindeer; another, two, marked by the prevalence of the mammoth and reindeer respectively.

As proved by the discovery of fossil remains, musk-oxen ranged during the Pleistocene period over northern Siberia and the plains of Germany and France, their bones occurring in river-deposits along with those of the reindeer, mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros.

The recently extinct Siberian mammoth and woolly rhinoceros were closely allied to species now inhabiting tropical regions exclusively.

The bones of Pleistocene mammals, the rhinoceros, mammoth, bison, hyaena, &c., have been found at numerous places, often in caves and fissures in the limestones, e.g.

The team will use off-road bikes to complete the mammoth 30,000 mile journey.

A truly mammoth televisual operation was at its end.

The fauna includes the horse, reindeer, mammoth, cave lion, rhinoceros, bear and urus.

There are some fine stalactites near this pit, and others in the Fairy Grotto and in Pensico Avenue; but, considering the magnitude of Mammoth Cave, its poverty of stalactitic ornamentation is remarkable.

The epoch was characterized by cold wet climate, by the supposed existence of Man of the Olom type, that is, nearly as dolichocephalous as the Neanderthal type, but with superciliary ridges flat, and frontal bones high, and by the occurrence of the musk-ox, the horse, the cave-bear, Rhinoceros tichorhinus and the mammoth.

Similar remains have been met with in the caves of Wales, and in England as far north as Derbyshire (Cresswell), proving that over the whole of southern and middle England men, in precisely the same stage of rude civilization, hunted the rhinoceros, the mammoth and other extinct animals.

Dan ate his usual mammoth plate of spaghetti, followed by hot custard.

Among the external characters by which the mammoth was distinguished from either of the existing species of elephant was the dense clothing, not only of long, coarse outer hair, but also of close under woolly hair of a reddish-brown colour, evidently in adaptation to the cold climate it inhabited.

Others admire more the Mammoth Dome, at the termination of Spark's Avenue, where a cataract falls from a height of iso ft.

Oh holy crap, this mammoth posting is just getting ridiculous.. .

When the chains were in place vertical suspension rods were added before the two huge girders were added by two mammoth cranes.

Divers installed some of the essential lane cable anchor points in the finish area - a pretty mammoth project all round!

This deposit covers large areas of the Downs and coastal plain, and occasionally yields remains of mammoth and wooly rhinoceros.

Sections of mammoth tusks have been discovered in local gravel pits.

No instrumental survey of the Mammoth Cave has ever been allowed by the management.

Mammoth specializes in beds for large-breed dogs.

The environments pop at you and the levels are just mammoth, giving testament to the programmers ability to include just about everything in a jungle-like atmosphere -- down to the single leaf on a large tree.

They emerge to the edge of the ice where beasts like the mammoth and the wooly rhino lived among the scrub.

One idea would be to inject frozen mammoth sperm recovered from the ice into the eggs of female elephants.

Malcolm is also beginning the mammoth task of pairing each negative acquired from Alan B Cross with a print.

There's Manfred, a depressed wooly mammoth, Sid, an amusing sloth and Diego, a mischievous sabre-toothed tiger.

Crime and Punishment is unquestionably one of the world's great novels and a mammoth undertaking to present on stage.

Gold is washed out of the sands of the Vitim and the Olekma, and tusks of the mammoth are dug out of the delta.

There is some trade in furs, mammoth bones, dried and salted fish.

Boucher de Perthes, about 1841, of rude flint hatchets in a sand-bed containing remains of mammoth and rhinoceros at Menchecourt near Abbeville, which first find was followed by others in the same district (see Boucher de Perthes, De l'Industrie primitive, ou les arts a leur origine (1846); Antiquites celtiques et antediluviennes (Paris, 1847), &c.).

They have sequenced the cacao tree, the mosquito, coral, the Tasmanian devil, the bald eagle, the leafcutter ant, a germ that attacks wheat plants, and the extinct woolly mammoth.

There 's Manfred, a depressed wooly mammoth, Sid, an amusing sloth and Diego, a mischievous sabre-toothed tiger.

Vegetation established was typical of tundra conditions, yet sufficient enough to support herds of wholly mammoth and musk ox en in the summer.

Crime and Punishment is unquestionably one of the world 's great novels and a mammoth undertaking to present on stage.

FastWeb.com and Sallie Mae also invite students to register for the opportunity to search mammoth databases of scholarships.

There is a section on the website where you can read reviews of dog beds tosee what customers of Mammoth have to say.

This mammoth website lists hundreds of thousands of websites pertaining to family history research.

Many dieters fail to stick to a calorically deficient diet for long, ending a celery stick and fruit fast with a mammoth binge.

The mammoth belongs to the post-Tertiary or Pleistocene epoch and was contemporaneous with man.

In the lower Geyser basin are the Mammoth Paint Pots, a group of mud springs with colours varying according to the mineral ingredients in the steam, which not only colours the mud but also forms it into imitative figures.

Unfortunately, the mammoth cost means any government introducing compulsion will use the opportunity to slide out of providing full tax relief inducements.

The supply of woolen overgarments was also common practice at Mammoth Cave, USA.

I did not take photomicrographs at Mammoth Hot Springs.

The"general characteristics of the order Proboscidea, to which the mammoth belongs, are given under that heading.

The mammoth pertains to the most highly specialized section of the group of elephants, which also contains the modern Asiatic species.

These Tertiary deposits are characterized by a rich fauna; fully developed leaves of poplars, numerous fruits of the mammoth tree, needles of several conifers, &c., being found in them, thus testifying to a climate once very much warmer.

Kentucky is noted for its caves, the bestknown of which are Mammoth Cave and Colossal Cavern (qq.v.).