For instance, turning into a wooly mammoth turned out to be a great way for Asian elephants to move out of the jungle and away from the competition, and onto the tundra.
These adaptations were acquired gradually as mammoths turned to more abrasive food items.
It exists in a seemingly different universe from the mammoth banks-turned-financial-services-conglomerates, like Citigroup ($1.9 trillion in assets) or JPMorgan Chase ($2.25 trillion).
The Bush administration and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan were sounding the alarm about the potential threat to the nation's financial health if the fortunes of the two mammoth companies turned sour.
But walk on ahead, past the narrow path lined with purple ageratum, and the picture changes: a crimson barn with 150 squawking, egg-laying hens; a girl with a safety pin pierced through her ear learning to groom a calf; a four-acre farm brimming with collard greens and green beans and sunflowers with their mammoth faces turned to the ground.
Of late Jessica Kagan Cushman has made a name for herself by taking gorgeous Ice Age mammoth tusks, turning them into smooth bangle bracelets, sullying them with silly scrimshaw pop culture sayings and selling them by the bargeload to even sillier celebrities at $1,400 a pop.
The mammoth, head-turning chop, pre-carved into tender, meaty slips, glistens with brown butter.
Her beloved protector, the Great Dane himself, is perched between us, giant right paw on the arm of her chair, left paw on mine, mammoth head turned upward to Ramon who had come to the table, at Irene's insistence, to be photographed with us.
Now they are being trained on the machines here at the Hattiesburg Paper Company, learning to turn mammoth rolls of paper into folded dinner napkins and toilet paper.
