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mammoth
(redirected from Wooly mammoths)

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mammoth adjective as high as the sky, astronomical, colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, great, huge, immense, large, massive, monstrous, mountainous, towering, tremendous, up to the sky, vast, walloping
See also: enormous, prodigious


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Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), this great movie follows a prehistoric civilisation which lives off the land and the wooly mammoths, until a rampaging band of raiders steal the men and women of the tribe.
Byline: ANI Washington, Dec 29 (ANI): When wooly mammoths were becoming extinct, some 10,000 years ago, early man had to start cooking vegetables on fire-cracked rock piles.
The role assignments of men-be-the-providers while woman-stay-at-home probably dates back to when Gurg the Caveman ran down wooly mammoths while Gurt, his wife, stayed back in the cave and made sure the kids--Grunt and Gurl--weren't eaten by wolves, cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, or run over by buses driven by Barney Rubble.
 
 
 
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