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mammoth

[mam-uhth] / ˈmæm əθ /


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The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Hamilton, trying to last out on a set of soft tyres for a mammoth 44 laps, lost out in the closing laps to Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli and the McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

At an Alaskan research station she inhales the scent of oxidizing permafrost: “Pleistocene-aged grass, mammoth bones, and thousands and thousands of years of microbial cells.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Construction of L.A.’s Metro D Line extension in 2017 led to the discovery of camel and possible mammoth fossils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

That expansion may have been responsible for the extinction of Eurasia’s woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Elephants and mammoths were not common in prehistoric southern England.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

According to UK Fossils, Suffolk is "well known" for its fossils from the Pleistocene era - also known as the Great Ice Age - including those belonging to mammoths.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Sora transfixed the tech world by creating seemingly realistic videos of everything from woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy field to a stylish woman walking down a Tokyo street filled with glowing neon signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

It peers across the street at the bubbling La Brea Tar Pits with their fiber-glass mammoths and saber-tooth cats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

As the extinctions proceeded, the Clovis people switched from mammoths to the smaller, more numerous bison.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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