mammoth

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A large extinct elephant with long curved tusks and thick hair, adapted to cold climates.

• Scientists found a frozen mammoth preserved in Siberian ice.
• The mammoth roamed the tundra during the last Ice Age.
• Genetic analysis of mammoth DNA has allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolutionary history of these Ice Age giants and their adaptation to frigid environments.
• The museum's paleontology exhibit features a nearly complete mammoth skeleton that provides insight into Pleistocene megafauna.
• Climate change at the end of the last glacial period likely contributed to the mammoth extinction, though human hunting may also have played a role.
• Scientists are exploring whether cloning technology could one day revive the mammoth, raising ethical questions about de-extinction efforts.

Eş anlamlılar: woolly mammoth, mastodon

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Extremely large; huge or enormous.

• The project required a mammoth effort from the entire team.
• They faced a mammoth task of rebuilding after the disaster.

Eş anlamlılar: huge, enormous, gigantic, colossal, vast, immense

Zıt anlamlılar: tiny, minuscule, small, minute