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By the way, it's only a matter of time until Big Bird gets cast on "Glee" as one of Rachel's feathered, distant and vaguely delusional cousins who teaches the "Glee" kids it's okay to believe in imaginary elephant-like creatures.
Anne Hathaway reportedly will play Kurt's lesbian aunt on 'Glee' Jen Chaney 2011
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Woolly mammoths -- large, hairy prehistoric elephant-like relatives -- supposedly have been extinct for thousands of years.
Tusk, Tusk: Woolly Mammoth Video A Big, Hairy Hoax (VIDEO) Lee Speigel 2012
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Woolly mammoths -- large, hairy prehistoric elephant-like relatives -- supposedly have been extinct for thousands of years.
Tusk, Tusk: Woolly Mammoth Video A Big, Hairy Hoax (VIDEO) Lee Speigel 2012
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On one level, militant cats and herds of alien elephant-like beings are hard to take seriously, but Larry is always able to make them do the real job of science fictional aliens: illustrate what it is to be human.
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Woolly mammoths -- large, hairy prehistoric elephant-like relatives -- supposedly have been extinct for thousands of years.
Tusk, Tusk: Woolly Mammoth Video A Big, Hairy Hoax (VIDEO) Lee Speigel 2012
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The young men perched on top of an elephant-like armored carrier, were fully armed and preparing to repel the VC attack in the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut.
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Its feet were clawed, not really elephant-like except for the size.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Some plants and animals -- like tiny little shrews with elephant-like trunks known as elephant shrews and nocturnal primates with large eyes known as bushbabies -- are thought to have evolved early in the species lineage, known as 'primitive' or 'ancient relic lineages.'
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
"Stonehenge" in Lake Michigan? Jan 2009
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And, now that I think about it, perhaps this strange elephant trunk display doesn't, in fact, indicate such a high level of stupidity -- performers, sans pants, probably sport the flat asexual look of a Ken doll -- this is all a desperate cry for the lords of science to bequeath them with a functioning elephant-like dangle between the legs.
Fitment Issues: K.O.P.S. vs. C.O.P.S. BikeSnobNYC 2008
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