woolly hippopotamus

noun

Definitions

  1. A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or…

    A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.

    • Above, the woolly hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Major) of western Europe; below, the southern elephant (Elephas Meridionalis). Remains of both are found in the riverdrifts of France and Spain[…]
    • It is true that the "woolly hippopotamus", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light "mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone[…]

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