The phrase 'mammoth role' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a large and significant task or responsibility. For example, you might say, "The newly elected president has a mammoth role to play in rebuilding the country's economy."
Noma Dumezweni has stepped in at short notice to play the mammoth title role in Penelope Skinner's new play and is frequently obliged to refer to the script.
Similarly, creatures such as the mammoth played a key role in trampling tundra and maintaining healthy grasslands in high latitudes such as Siberia.
JK Rowling and the three leads spoke to Lizo Mzimba about the past ten years in the roles, the mammoth task of filming the final book, and what it feels like to move on from the series.
However, while large herbivores such as mammoths clearly have a distinct role to play in their community, it is not clear to me that the specific need for mammoths outweighs the ethical challenges facing mammoth de-extinction.
The problem here is that we don't yet fully understand the role of the woolly mammoth as an ecosystem engineer, and it is unclear still whether the mammoth steppe disappeared as a result of the loss of the mammoth or whether the mammoth disappeared because its habitat was lost, along with its ice age world.
In the 1960s, Bryant also acquired a formidable reputation in television: he played lead roles in a mammoth adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Roads To Freedom (BBC2, 1972), and in John Hopkins' Talking To A Stranger (BBC1, 1966), which scrutinised a riven family from four perspectives.
Their role needs to evolve from operating mammoth power plants and transmission grids to operating software-powered platforms that interconnect the unscaled power solutions in homes and small businesses.
Due to high purchase and transportation costs, the breed played a smaller role in the development of the Mammoth Jack than some breeders would have preferred.
Thus, none of the candidate genes examined thus far demonstrated a clear difference exclusive to mammoths, which would be necessary for establishing a role in their unique dense and long-haired phenotype relative to extant elephants.
Nor did he own up to his role as a proselytizer for increased risk at that mammoth bank, where the bad bets would ultimately require a $45 billion taxpayers' bailout.
