MAMMOTHS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

mammoths

noun

plural of mammoth

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful even as sport-utility vehicles go, that one is a mammoth

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Recent Examples of mammoths In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026 The site preserves the remains of Columbian mammoths and offers a look at Ice Age life in Texas. — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools. — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026 Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026

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Noun

While responding to the incident, crews observed three whales in the area off Fire Island National Seashore.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
The Mokattam Formation in northern Egypt is a thick layer of limestone that has preserved prehistoric marine fossils, including fish, sharks and early whales.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species.

— Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

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This latest group of founders stands on the shoulders of giants from the noughties like Spotify, Klarna, and Skype, who themselves took inspiration from the postwar design empires of IKEA, H&M and Tetra Pak (modernizer of the milk carton).

— Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Google on Thursday unveiled a new AI agent tailored for workplace tasks, positioning it to compete with other technology giants racing to offer their own virtual office assistants.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

The main three projects — The Mummy, The Loudest Voice and Unabomber — each involve monsters in various forms.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
The world has seen many hurricanes rapidly intensify in recent years, strengthening from relatively weak storms into destructive monsters in a matter of hours.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

This wildly luxurious hideaway coexists with nature to put you up-close with the Big Five—especially the elephants, lion, and rhino that roam this northwest corner of South Africa.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Acehnese conservationist Farwiza Farhan has spent years fighting to protect Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem—perhaps the last place on Earth where elephants, tigers, rhinos and orangutans still coexist in the wild.

— Ashleigh Nghiem, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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