Mammoth: alternatives and connections

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to hav…

That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part ha…

A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called als…

a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South…

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros…

One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…

A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twen…

An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…

The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions…

large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America

One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus Aepiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar.

A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of…

Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong…