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woolly mammoth
noun
a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
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Origin of woolly mammoth1
Example Sentences
It's not just Siberia and an engineered “woolly mammoth” we should worry about, though.
The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
It has publicised its efforts to use similar cutting edge genetic techniques to bring back extinct animals including the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.
Steppe mammoths were an ancestor of the woolly mammoth, and this site is believed to date back to around 220,000 years ago.
They have identified preclinical candidates in the genomes of contemporary humans, extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans, woolly mammoths, and hundreds of other organisms.
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