mammoth

(also called ‘woolly mammoth’)  a kind of animals – mammal – looks like (resembles) and related to the modern elephants – huge elephant-like body with very long upward curved tusks, and (in some species) long brown or grey woolly hair; believed to have extinct (died out completely) about 4,500 years ago

Special Features:

Mammoths are not to be found now; nobody has ever seen them because they are extinct animals (died out completely).  We now see them in pictures of imaginary drawings and in skeleton shapes kept in the museums around the world!

Animal experts and archaeologists gave these mammoths a shape from the bones that have been dug out from the ground, and from the bodies (fossils) of some of these animals died thousands of years ago but kept safe from decaying by the frozen ice.

Small-sized mammoths of Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean are believed to have survived until 1,650 BC.

Figures of Speech:

mammoth (noun)  =  (of something)  great in size; very, very large; giant

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