Mammoth Quotes

“He's a man," Themla said.
"I guess that explains it."
"Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike.”
― Dean Koontz

“About thirty-five genera of mammals disappear from America, about half of them in a brief window of 500 years, 13,200 to 12,700 years ago, with Clovis hunters occupying the core of that time period. A sudden cooling, the Younger Dryas, descends on the Earth by 12,880 years ago, marking the terminal appearance of many of these animals. Suspected causes of the YD are still contentious. But it signals the end of Clovis and much of the megafauna.”
― Doug Peacock, In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terribl

“The huge ears flapped and it lifted its head to show off the long curving tusks adorned with flowers made by the children. When the animatronic mammoth trumpeted triumphantly, windows a mile away vibrated and locals called the police.”
― Janet Gogerty, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“The woolly mammoths occupied northern Eurasia and northern North America; the Columbian mammoth's range was transcontinental, from Alaska south throughout most of the United States, and went from an elevation of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Utah to sea level in Florida and Mexico. It seems unlikely that such adaptable animals could have been totally wiped out by even the most severe weather conditions.”
― Paul S. Martin, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America

“We'll see how big a coup it is," Zuckerman said.
"Zoom is moving into golf in a very big way. Huge. Humongous. Gigantic."
"Enormous," Myron said.
"Mammoth," Win added.
"Colossal."
"Titanic."
"Bunyanesque."
Win smiled. "Brobdingnagian," he said.
"Oooo," Myron said. "Good one."
Zuckerman shook his head. "You guy are funnier than The Three Stooges without Curly.”
― Harlan Coben, Back Spin