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woolly mammoth
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The woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene . The woolly mammoth diverged ...
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n. A very hairy mammoth, ''Mammuthus primigenius'', widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.
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n. very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere [syn: northern mammoth , Mammuthus primigenius ]
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The race of men with social conscience enough to care for their weak and wounded, with spiritual awareness enough to bury their dead and venerate their great totem, the race of men with great brains but no frontal lobes, who made no great strides forward, who made almost no progress in nearly a hundred thousand years, was doomed to go the way of the woolly mammoth and the great cave bear.
Across the cold steppes of Southern Europe with its sparse arctic vegetation, drifted such hardy creatures as the woolly mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros, great oxen and reindeer, no doubt following the vegetation northward in spring and southward in autumn.