Sentence examples for mammoth changes from inspiring English sources

The mammoth changes came in the early 1980s.

Nevertheless, it is obviously better to know the state of biodiversity threat than to be ignorant of the mammoth changes in global amphibian diversity that we are witnessing.

It is a mammoth change in a state where auto insurance has been a long-running nightmare and it puts New Jersey in line with auto insurance practices in most of the country.

As the climate cooled, mammoth teeth changed as they adapted to more abrasive food types like grass.

Will the foetus, even with as many as 70m mammoth-specific changes to its genome (this translates to around 2%), have any role to play in how its development will proceed?

A mammoth climate-change plan spells out in detail how much pain each of its 27 members will have to bear if the EU is to meet ambitious targets set by national leaders last March.The aim is to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 by at least a fifth, and more than double to 20% the amount of energy produced from renewable sources such as wind or wave power.

"What the mammoth evolved is changes in hemoglobin that reduce the amount of heat needed to exchange oxygen," Campbell says, which allowed the animals to keep their extremities "breathing" even at very low temperatures.

The DNA changes in the mammoth hemoglobin genes differ from those in other arctic animals, an instance of convergent evolution or attaining the same end by a different genetic route.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is predicting congressional approval of the tax-cutting compromise he has reached with Republican leaders, but he's not ruling out that unhappy Democrats will make some changes in the mammoth legislation.

"This basically gives you the changes that account for a mammoth being a mammoth -- the changes that allowed them to have hair, tremendous amounts of fat, large tusks," Poinar told CBS News. "This then gives us this roadmap, so to speak, of what we would need to change in an Asian elephant chromosome to make them mammoth-like".

As huge as Gulliver, "Toddie" bawls in a mammoth cradle, has his diaper changed by heavy equipment and plays with the boats in the bay.