| 单词 | mastodon |
| 例句 | When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark into the wilderness, he confidently expected them to find woolly mammoths and mastodons. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The goal was to mash as much mall merchandise as you could with Melvin, the mischievous mastodon. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals— mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I followed Dr. Thorn inside, through a huge chamber full of mastodons and dinosaur skeletons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Say, Lee, I want you to read an article. It says they’ve dug up a mastodon in Siberia. Been in the ice thousands of years. And the meat’s still good.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As time passed, the bands spread far and wide, pursuing mammoths, mastodons, rhinoceroses and reindeer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I think the mastodons died and their bodies got run over, and then frozen and preserved in ice.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z These were not mastodon and mammoth hunters—both species were already extinct. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Let’s not have any mastodon meat in our icebox,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s more likely there could be mastodons buried around here,” Cory said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Many of the scenes reveal back-room deceit, like a half-made papier-mâché mastodon, a T. rex skeleton built from a do-it-yourself kit, and a family of beavers emerging from a crate marked “Product of Mexico.” The Scan: How Animals Think and Harmonic Stars 2014-03-31T21:22:13Z The opening exhibition “Remember the Mastodon” features a full-size reproduction of a mastodon emerging through a wall, in addition to fossils and examples of lost bird species. Staten Island Museum Is Reopening in Snug Harbor Complex 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Maybe you are “new school” and will choose to eat only the meat of giant sloths and mastodons. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z The students responded with confidence, “as if unearthing whole mastodons from the soil of their imaginative backyards.” David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Tell that to the mastodon, the bison, to little unassuming creatures like the Wyoming toad. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The mastodon died some 13,000 years ago, around the age of 65, and there are signs that humans tore apart the corpse. Mastodons Remembered at Staten Island Show 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Yale University Art Gallery has brought out gold oval cuff links made around 1840, and the Newark Museum is showing examples made of sapphires and mastodon ivory. When Form Meets Function: Cuff Links Throughout the Centuries 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Vernon’s voice is a rough shout, like an urgent call to action, but beyond the refrain, the lyrics are cryptic and diffuse: “Tell them I’ll be passing on/tell them we’re young mastodons.” Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z They were succeeded by mastodons, lumbering giants with bigger brains and huge tusks but not much in the way of IQ. Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me... 2011-08-20T23:05:43Z Including a mastodon skeleton in an art museum exhibition may seem an odd choice. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z This guy is interested in what he calls the “long game” — so long that his descriptions include the ice age, the rise of the mastodons, the pulling apart of the continental shelf. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z These urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon. 2010-01-09T03:29:00Z "This mastodon find is older than the woolly mammoth that tread the Earth in the Ice Age. ... It probably died on a sandbar of the ancient Rio Grande River," Morgan told Reuters. Fossil found during New Mexico bachelor party is 10 million years old 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “He’s the last of the mastodons!” the Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein told me last year. Joe Biden has been around politics for decades, and so has his biographer 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Peale’s skeleton was a hit, and it was mammoth, and not mastodon, fever that people caught. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Owners made personalized pendants out of mastodon bones and armor fragments. Antiques: For Fans of Sendak, the Artist Keeps Giving 2013-08-01T19:05:16Z The Ice Age Discovery Center lets you touch mastodon and mammoth teeth and explore the region’s fossils for free. The surprising accessibility of Aspen on a budget 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z I couldn’t make sense of it, but it would certainly keep your kidneys warm if you were out poaching mastodons. | Reed Krakoff: Bulletproof Clothing: Take Your Best Shot 2010-09-21T21:46:00Z When mastodon bones were first studied, in 1739, many scientists reasoned that the large and unique bones belonged to an elephant or hippopotamus. ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014-02-10T18:47:42Z Lockdown’s spaceship, on which Cade’s and Optimus’s teams both sneak a ride, has the rich detailing of a winged mastodon; it’s a plane with a demonic personality. REVIEW: "Transformers: Age of Extinction" Is Bot-Sh*t Crazy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z We also spot part of a mastodon skeleton, discovered in 1801 by the same man who lifts the curtain. Exhibition Review: The World as America Dreamed It 2011-07-27T22:13:47Z In search of the optimal wobble, the company used genetically engineered mastodon collagen in its early prototypes. The latest stupid internet trend I can’t get enough of: gelatin 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This summer mastodon bones and tusks were recovered at a farm in Orange County, N.Y., — in 2014, the team paid about $24,000 at an auction for rights to explore the site. Mastodons Remembered at Staten Island Show 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Setbacks included the discovery of mastodon fossils by excavation crews, sparring architects, internecine warfare over the curatorial focus and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic. Film Academy’s Museum Connects With Visitors in First Year 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The Frost Giants also ride around on mastodons and polar bears in "Tales of Asgard," which may be the coolest thing ever. The other new "Thor" movie 2011-05-28T15:01:00Z Elizabeth Kolbert opens “The Sixth Extinction,” winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, with a chapter on the paleontological case history of the mastodon. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Of course, no rule said you could flirt only with those who posed with your shirt-sniffed armpits, before running off into the biological determinist sunset to raise strapping caveman babies and hunt mastodon. Sex, scents and pheromones 2012-05-19T19:01:00Z In the fall, archaeologists also found prehistoric tools there; some 13,000 years ago, humans seem to have torn apart the mastodon’s corpse. Long Unseen, Treasures Have a New Spotlight 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the mastodon, borrowed from a museum in Darmstadt, Germany, sits alone amid empty galleries, with the public largely unaware that one of the great icons of early American history is back on American soil. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The mastodon that Harvey eventually found, in Darmstadt, wasn’t any old mastodon. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z One of Cuvier’s contemporaries proposed calling the mastodon “the American incognitum.” When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z But in 2008 the Copenhagen city council voted against erecting the sculpture, a mastodon of towering geometric shapes, with a majority deeming the work too clunky and costly. Scene/Seen: A Bold New Art World Is Lighting Up Western Denmark 2011-10-14T13:30:15Z I don't recall any cave paintings depicting elliptical machines or $500 running shoes, yet these people killed mastodons. Young Fitness Fogies Ditch $40 Classes for Hoops, Laps and Jogs 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Among the roles are the poet Homer, a mastodon, the biblical Cain — and the actress playing the maid, who keeps breaking character. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Fragments of a mastodon skeleton found near Middletown, N.Y., will be preserved together as a gift, not yet finalized, to an undetermined institution. Long Unseen, Treasures Have a New Spotlight 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z There was bass like a hard shove, like a bumpy road, like a plunging elevator, like electroshock jolts, like mastodon treads, like a leviathan surfacing, like a mudslide. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z “If it had eyes, it would have gazed out at saber-toothed tigers and mastodons,” said Norman Ellsrand, distinguished professor of botany at UC Riverside. Ancient California tree may be threatened by proposed Riverside County development 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The label states that this hefty can “may contain up to 30% mastodon meat.” 19 clever white elephant gifts worth a laugh and a steal 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z In contrast to other large Quaternary mammals, such as mastodons and mammoths, which evolved in Europe or Asia and then traveled east, Megalonyx arrived from South America. 'Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales' tracks Washington fossils and their stories 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Mammoths and mastodons are rare in the La Brea record, but other sites show they hung on for another few thousand years, perhaps because they faced less pressure from human hunters and other predators. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z A woman visiting a beach in central California on Memorial Day weekend did some amateur paleontology when she found the worn molar of an adult mastodon sticking out of the sand. Woman finds mastodon molar on California beach 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Wayne Thompson, the paleontology collections adviser at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, recognized that the tooth belonged to an ancient mastodon, a creature that became extinct 10,000 years ago, CBS News reports. A Conversation With Gavin Newsom About the ‘California Effect’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Liz Broughton, the visitor experience manager at the Santa Cruz museum, thinks the devastating winter storm that hit Santa Cruz in January may have washed the mastodon tooth onshore. Santa Cruz beachgoers find 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth over the Memorial Day weekend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Side branches of the elephant evolutionary tree gave rise to mastodons and mammoths. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Saber-toothed cats, American lions, and massive dire wolves preyed on mammoths, mastodons, horses, and other herbivores—a menagerie recorded in fossils extracted from the La Brea tar. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Mastodons, in this case the Pacific mastodon species, were a large, tusked herbivore, whose evolutionary line diverged from that of elephants around 27 million years ago. Woman finds mastodon molar on California beach 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “The real question is what’s going to happen, because we’ll now have a mastodon - a monster - that will be increasingly too big to fail,” said Marc Chesney, a finance professor at the University of Zurich. Credit Suisse takeover hits heart of Swiss banking, identity 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z But acquiring the mastodon tooth was not easy. Santa Cruz beachgoers find 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth over the Memorial Day weekend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The mammoth is more closely related to modern elephants than the mastodon. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The real question is what’s going to happen, because we’ll now have a mastodon — a monster — that will be increasingly too big to fail,” said Marc Chesney, a finance professor at the University of Zurich. Credit Suisse takeover hits heart of Swiss banking, identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “I practically hit the floor. It was a mastodon tooth, right in the same area where we know mastodons lived in Santa Cruz County,” the adviser, Wayne Thompson, told San Francisco’s KRON-TV. Woman finds mastodon molar on California beach 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The BBC has been unable to post links to the most popular mastodon.social server, as well as more than 10 others - including a server for journalists and another for people in the UK. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z This isn’t the first time the museum has encountered remains of a mastodon. Santa Cruz beachgoers find 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth over the Memorial Day weekend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z They discovered evidence of more than 100 plant genera, nine animal taxa including the extinct elephant-like mastodon, and even marine life within the same region. Ancient DNA shows what Greenland may have looked like 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Ancient DNA: The Arctic was once a lush forest of birch trees, mastodons and hares. A Smarter Robot 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The museum hosts two other mastodon fossils found in the area on permanent exhibit — another tooth and the skull of a juvenile found in 1980 in Aptos Creek. Woman finds mastodon molar on California beach 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The oldest DNA ever recovered has revealed a remarkable two-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland, including the presence of an unlikely explorer: the mastodon. World’s Oldest DNA Discovered, Revealing Ancient Arctic Forest Full of Mastodons 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The skull and a tooth belonging to a young mastodon are on permanent exhibit at the museum. Santa Cruz beachgoers find 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth over the Memorial Day weekend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most surprising discovery was the mastodon, a hairy relative of the elephant that has long been associated with boreal forests in North America. Ancient DNA shows what Greenland may have looked like 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Among the discovery of DNA from creatures like rodents, reindeer and geese, the unearthing of mastodon DNA was a surprise - Prof Willerslev told the BBC no one had found the elephant-like creatures in Greenland before. Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old lost world 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The mastodon was an elephant relative that roamed North and Central America until its extinction alongside many other large Ice Age mammals roughly 10,000 years ago. Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The landscape, which is now a harsh polar desert, once hosted trees, caribou and mastodons. World’s Oldest DNA Discovered, Revealing Ancient Arctic Forest Full of Mastodons 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Based on the wear and tear of the tooth, museum staff estimates the mastodon was between 30 and 40 years old when it died in a nearby river valley. Santa Cruz beachgoers find 5,000-year-old mastodon tooth over the Memorial Day weekend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In a bleak valley not far from Greenland’s massive ice sheet, scientists have reconstructed a rich ancient ecosystem, down to its roving mastodons and smooth-barked birch trees. Lost world in northern Greenland conjured from DNA in ancient soil 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon. Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Other sequences come from land animals, including caribou, hares, mastodons, geese, lemmings and ants. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z That was “mind-blowing,” Willerslev says, because no one thought mastodons ranged that far north. World’s Oldest DNA Discovered, Revealing Ancient Arctic Forest Full of Mastodons 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z And that may have been the cause for the great extinction of the ice age mammals: mastodons, mammoths, dire wolves, saber-toothed cats. La Brea Tar Pits Begin an Unusual Rebrand 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Now, he has extended his definition of wildlife to the distant past: the great, tusked mammoths and mastodons of the ice age. Booming trade in mammoth ivory may be bad news for elephants 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z One big surprise was finding DNA from the mastodon, an extinct species that looks like a mix between an elephant and a mammoth, Kjær said. Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Dr. Dalén noted that the nearest known mastodon fossils were 75,000-year-old remains in Nova Scotia — which are far younger than the Greenland DNA, and much farther south than Kap Kobenhavn. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z As it turned out, he had found the skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like beast that roamed North America during the last ice age. When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z North America and North Asia hosted mammoths, saber tooth cats, mastodons, giant sloths, and even camels. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The last thing I need is enough cereal bars to feed a mastodon, because I will be that mastodon. Try these no-bake cereal bars for to beat the heat 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Many mastodon fossils have previously been found from temperate forests in North America. Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The Danish researchers determined that the mastodons in Greenland two million years ago belonged to a deep branch of the mastodon family tree, one that was previously unknown. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z When they pulled out the mastodon’s massive jaw, several bright white teeth were still in place. When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Expect to find over 700 fossil specimens, including a T. rex, woolly mammoth and American mastodon. 4 spots where your kids can pretend they’re in Jurassic Park 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Paleontologists in North America have identified sites where early inhabitants butchered mastodons and mammoths, lending credence to that theory. Bits of an extinct bird’s eggshells may be clue to why megafauna vanished 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “I wouldn’t have, in a million years, expected to find mastodons in northern Greenland,” said Love Dalen, a researcher in evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University who was not involved in the study. Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “That could mean they are the ancestors of the late-Pleistocene mastodons that we know of, or that they could represent a new species,” Dr. Dalén said. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The bones will join other mastodons at the museum, including one partial skeleton known as Smitty, whose bones were found at a housing construction site in Michigan in the 1980s. When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Over 13,000 years ago, an American mastodon roamed what is today the American Midwest. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z At Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico, a bachelor party stumbled across a fossilized mastodon skull that is millions of years old. Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z For decades, paleontologists, archaeologists and ecologists have been debating about the fate of animals such as the American mastodon and saber-toothed cats. Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Ecologically, mastodons would fit in well in a poplar-birch forest in Greenland, as they did in North American woodlands. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The Savannah-like habitat was ideal territory for hunting the great beasts that had moved into the postglacial landscape, including mastodon, giant sloth, bison and short-faced bear. Coast Salish people persevered in the Puget Sound region despite settlers who took their land and forced them into unfair treaties 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Where the mastodon spent his life and how he died were all recovered by studying chemical signatures recorded in his tusk, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z They say the site, which covers hundreds of acres, is home to hundreds and possibly thousands of fossils, including specimens from long-extinct species like mastodons and giant camels. ‘Giant treasure trove’ of fossils may give a better picture of Miocene epoch about 10 million years ago 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z This quick, targeted stop suggests that people had adapted to the landscape well enough to have been familiar with this obscure place and the likelihood of finding food and mastodon tusks for toolmaking there. Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Together, they show that a region just 600 miles from the North Pole was once covered by a forest of poplar and birch trees inhabited by mastodons. Oldest Known DNA Paints Picture of a Once-Lush Arctic 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But term limits transformed Sacramento not into a Greek-style agora of free men, but a swamp where Republican fortunes have sunk ever since like a mastodon in the La Brea tar pits. Column: In recall of governor, is California GOP smoking an exploding cigar? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Scientists studied the Buesching mastodon, named for the family farm where it was found in 1998, and now on display at the Indiana State Museum. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Those who frequent that building or yearn to do the same have followed quite some path from darlings to darling mastodons. As Gonzaga stars in hoops-crazed Spokane, Baylor finds a way to thrive in football-mad Waco 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Humans butchered a mastodon there and carried away its meat and one of its tusks, leaving behind some of its bones, the other tusk and the broken knife. Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z They once made mastodon gelatin for a gummy elephant, like a “Flintstones” episode come to life. My Wife Was Wary of My Lab-Made Dinner Party. The Faux Whiskey Won Her Over. 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Those that did were mostly large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, and giant ground sloths — all highly mobile. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Daniel Fisher, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan and also an author of the study, explained that pits on the surface of a mastodon’s tusk are just one trace injuries leave behind. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z They found that the well-preserved animal was a juvenile female, part of a vanished ecosystem dating to a time when northwestern Canada was home to American mastodons and other Pleistocene megafauna. 57,000 year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Yukon permafrost 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The exhibition Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture takes a wide-angle approach to art, filling galleries with a hodgepodge of artifacts: maps, nature scenes, portraits — and that mastodon skeleton. You have until Nov. 22 to visit these six Smithsonian museums. Here’s what to expect. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The ramps and slides are decorated with colorful graphics of stegosauruses and mastodons. Playgrounds are an essential escape for kids, especially now. Here’s how to visit them safely. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z In an age of massive mammals, mastodons were among the largest. Mastodons did a lot of traveling during large-scale shifts in weather patterns 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Whether the migration patterns and injuries are representative of all male American mastodons is a question for future research. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z These were the times of mastodons, camels, giant beavers, and, as Zhur documents, gray wolves. 57,000 year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Yukon permafrost 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The earliest fossils of American mastodons date to about 3.5-4m years ago with the creatures commonly found in wooded and swampy areas where they browsed on trees and shrubs. Global heating played part in American mastodon extinction, say scientists 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He believed they belonged to a mastodon larger than anything that had ever existed in Europe, and he actively promoted the idea that such a beast might still roam the country’s west. Lions, tigers and bears: the US presidents who took animal ownership to extremes 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z When the researchers analyzed genetic material from the bones, teeth and tusks of 33 American mastodons, they found they traveled wide distances. Mastodons did a lot of traveling during large-scale shifts in weather patterns 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The team hopes to study more male and female mastodon fossils. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Some of the largest skeletons in places such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History — those of mammoths, mastodons, sauropod dinosaurs and the Tyrannosaurus rex — belong to long-extinct species. We learned a lot about whales this year 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Poinar and colleagues report how they analysed ancient mitochondrial DNA extracted from the remains of 35 American mastodons from across North America. Global heating played part in American mastodon extinction, say scientists 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The Bulletin reported Friday that the tusk, cranium and other bones likely belonged to a prehistoric mammoth or mastodon. Research underway on prehistoric bones from Prineville site 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Once they went north, the intrepid mastodons didn’t necessarily thrive. Mastodons did a lot of traveling during large-scale shifts in weather patterns 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z For now, the study opens the door to more questions: How did the migration patterns of female mastodons differ? Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z But none of these finds was more meaningful than the mastodon he began to unearth on Nov. 16, 1992. Richard Cerutti, whose mastodon discovery shook up the archaeology world, dies at 78 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Two of the five main clusters largely encompassed mastodons from Alaska and Yukon. Global heating played part in American mastodon extinction, say scientists 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Scientists will also try to determine how long ago the creature lived and whether it’s a mammoth or mastodon — related, but distinct, animals. Research underway on prehistoric bones from Prineville site 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The mastodons that expanded north were less genetically diverse, too. Mastodons did a lot of traveling during large-scale shifts in weather patterns 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Whatever the broader possibilities about mastodons as a species, Dr. Miller returned to the team’s discoveries about the Buesching specimen. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The pumpkin's ancestor was an incredibly bitter, tennis-ball-sized squash—but it was apparently a common snack for mastodons. We Owe Our Pumpkins to Pooping Megafauna 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z However mastodons in the other cluster were far older, suggesting they were part of separate migrations during an earlier interglacial periods. Global heating played part in American mastodon extinction, say scientists 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In ancient North America, for example, mammoths and American mastodons generally preferred different types of habitats and local conditions. Canada Gets Its First Smilodon 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Like the mastodons, they find sustenance in a new but welcoming habitat. Mastodons did a lot of traveling during large-scale shifts in weather patterns 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Our hungry mastodon would come along and eat those plants, stamping that geographic fingerprint into his tusks. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z As large plant eaters like giant ground sloths, mammoths and mastodons declined in the Pleistocene, their predators had to crunch more bones to get the nutrition they needed. Yellowstone wolf teeth lead to extinction theory 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The following year, three boys in Mississippi dug up a mastodon fossil believed to be almost 100,000 years old. Woolly mammoth tooth discovered in Ohio creek by 12-year-old boy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The birds have remained relatively unchanged since the Pleistocene Age, surviving long after the mastodons whose carcasses they once fed upon had been relegated to museum exhibits. How the California condor returned from the brink of extinction 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Says Bettison-Varga: “The Lake Pit, with the family of mammoths and a mastodon, is an iconic feature of La Brea Tar Pits and this will be expressed to the teams.” The La Brea Tar Pits are getting a makeover. Here's why 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In his adolescence, this mastodon stayed relatively local. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z A teen searching for arrowheads in southern Iowa found something much bigger: the prehistoric jawbone of a mastodon. National Digest: Armed F-16 fighter jet crashes near California air base 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z There likely are more fossils on the land, as the owners found other mastodon remains there decades ago. Teen finds prehistoric mastodon jaw in southern Iowa 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead of any arrowheads, the teen found a 30-inch jaw bone of a mastodon -- a prehistoric hairy elephant, related to the mammoth. Teenager finds prehistoric jaw bone of mastodon on Iowa farm: report 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The mastodon bones appeared to record damage caused by some of America’s first inhabitants, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Things drastically changed for this mastodon from his 29th through his 32nd years. Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The owners found other mastodon remains there decades ago. National Digest: Armed F-16 fighter jet crashes near California air base 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The beast is the prime example of a new species – the first new mastodon named in half a century. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Previously, there was one main species of mastodon in North America, known as the Mammut american. 10,000-year-old mastodon species specific to California recently discovered by scientists, study says 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Or, more likely, the mastodon is an unfortunate case of modern roadkill. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Does she go with the big-chested bloke extending a fist full of wilted flowers and mastodon meat, or fall for the skinny one offering her lovely jewelry carved from exotic shells? Humans Are Still Mating with Neandertals 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The state ban on ivory includes mammoth, mastodon, walrus, warthog, whale and narwhal teeth and tusks as well as any form of rhinoceros horn. La Jolla gallery owner, salesman, admit ivory trafficking 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The American mastodon – Mammut americanum – is a real rock star among prehistoric mammals. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “I’m shocked that there’s a mastodon taxon that went unrecognized for so long,” he told the outlet. 10,000-year-old mastodon species specific to California recently discovered by scientists, study says 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Not only is the site far older than any other, but no definitive signs of human presence – like bones or tools – were found with the mastodon. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z The spores of a fungus called Sporormiella live on herbivore dung and are often used to track past populations of large plant eaters, including ice age giants like mastodons and mammoths. Mites that feed on llama poop may track the rise and fall of the Incan Empire 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z That night in New Orleans, Clemson had a quarterback, Kelly Bryant, who was merely terrific in a matchup of mastodons that doesn’t have much patience for merely terrific. Perspective | Hate on the Alabama-Clemson CFP final all you want, but the football will be great 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The bones and teeth of the American mastodon also figured prominently in Georges Cuvier’s famous proof that extinction is a reality at the end of the 18th century. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z They also used the identity of large, extinct animals, such as mastodons and ancient horses, to confirm the dates. Strongest evidence of early humans butchering animals discovered in north Africa 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The back and forth would have further mashed cobbles, some of which were drawn up by the excavator, into the sediment and against the mastodon bones. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s fun to collaborate, so … I left it to you to figure out what trees the farmers should plant at their field borders, for the mastodons to browse when they’re not grazing. Say it with mastodons 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “Mastodon the software will investigate ways to help mods deal with large numbers of duplicate reports and blacklisting reports from dubious sources. mastodon.social will continue enforcing our anti-harassment rules,” he tells The Verge. Twitter rival Mastodon isn’t safe from online mobs either 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In time, though, it seemed that there was only one American mastodon that lived from coast to coast. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “Unlike the mastodons at The Boston Globe, I would not presume to tell anyone else what to think or what to do,” Tradup wrote. Newspaper editorials across U.S. rebuke Trump for attacks on media 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a mastodon with a bad case of road rash. Busted Mastodon Is Ice Age Roadkill 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z But when you don’t expect mastodons, it’s still a lot. Say it with mastodons 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The Buesching mastodon is being displayed as if it is in motion, complete with track marks trailing it. Mastodon skeleton reassembly gets underway at U. of Michigan 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Described by paleontologist Alton Dooley and a team of five other researchers, Max and other mastodons west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains represent a different species. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z I conjured an image of mastodon hunters clad in ground sloth fur with pockets full of lotus seeds. Opinion | Loving the lotus along the Anacostia 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “We have found arrowheads on this farm. Freaking mastodons probably walked on this farm. That’s the stuff that is hard to part with.” Farming family balances rural past and suburban present 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Today’s species originated from ancestors that lived alongside saber-tooth tigers, mastodons and dire wolves. Here’s why there are so many coyotes and why they are spreading so fast 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Losing a home-grown jewel to a global mastodon will rankle for some in India. Walmart takes a second shot at the Indian market 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The distinctive molars of these mastodons are part of what sets them apart. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z While he studied many extinct species — such as cave bears, mastodons and ground sloths — Neanderthals were his deepest passion. David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z In February, researchers studying the elephant genome revealed how elephants interbred with mastodons, Omland noted. Ravens mated another species into oblivion, their twisted family tree shows 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A basement gallery contains the Bergstrom Rock and Gem Collection, an extensive display of rocks, gems and fossils, including agates and mastodon teeth. Nebraska library includes extensive collection of fine art 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The mastodon skeleton, nicknamed “Manny,” located at the front of the Hall of Ideas, will be restored and will move to a new home. Michigan mastodon to be restored, moved to a new home 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The grinders are consistently narrower than those of eastern mastodons, Dooley and colleagues note. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Tom Curwen on the the ancient mastodon that ignited debate over humans’ arrival in North America. Essential California: From pot to lightbulbs to taxes, life is about to change 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z They include a partial rabbit jaw, mastodon tooth, camel foreleg, bison vertebrae, and a tooth and ankle bone from a horse. Subway paleontology: LA construction unearths fossil trove 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But not all mastodons were eating the same thing. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The museum will hold a bon voyage party for those who want to say goodbye to Manny the mastodon. Michigan mastodon to be restored, moved to a new home 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The question is why the western mastodons split off into their own distinctive anatomical species. Mastodons to the Max 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z When the mastodons died out about 12,000 years ago, squash lost its natural spreaders and the clearings they created. Dinosaurs, gods and marshmallows: A Thanksgiving science quiz A family in the Saginaw County community of Birch Run also found what was identified as a mastodon tooth. Scientists examine mastodon teeth that turned up in Michigan 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Included in the sample of 65 teeth were mastodon fossils from two different time periods in Ice Age Missouri. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z So let me tell you about what mastodons left behind. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Researchers believe the pieces belonged to a male American mastodon that lived for two or three decades. Mastodon bones discovered at Michigan construction site 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Drawing from radiocarbon dates of proboscideans across the central part of North America, Widga and colleagues outlined what was happening to American mastodons towards the end of the Ice Age. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In western Michigan, mastodon bones were found recently by construction workers. Scientists examine mastodon teeth that turned up in Michigan 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z But the fact is that American mastodons were variable animals – just as we are – and so simply calling them Ice Age forest browsers is about as helpful as calling sabercats carnivores. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The treasure trove of mastodon coprolites found in Aucilla, Florida allowed paleontologists to narrow down the diet for at least one population of American mastodons. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until Tuesday that a University of Michigan researcher said the bones were the remains of a mastodon skeleton estimated to be around 10,000 years old. Mastodon bones discovered at Michigan construction site 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And, apparently, mastodons were doing quite well just before they disappeared. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Naturally, this applies to extinct animals as much as living ones, including mastodons. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Yet there doesn’t seem to be any change in the microwear of mastodon teeth. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The site's fossil record hints that it was a watering hole and wallow for local animals back in the Ice Age, and the copious amounts of mastodon dung found there support that interpretation. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The Stegomastodon was an elephantine creature — not a mastodon, but similar in appearance — whose existence was relatively recent. A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-Old Fossil 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In the window of time between 14,600 and 12,800 years ago, the researchers found that “mastodons are geographically widespread and morphologically variable which is consistent with the interpretation of a large regional population.” Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z And there’s still work to do in assessing where mastodon populations existed through time. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z American mastodons were browsers, elephants of the forest rather than the grassland like their distant mammoth cousins. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Eventually, paleontologists realized that this straw had passed through the local mastodons. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z In November, the partial skull and tusk of a mastodon was also found under the Purple Line. Bone fragment from ancient 1,500-pound ground sloth unearthed beneath Crenshaw Boulevard 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z No one really knows what happened to the last mastodons. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z What paleontologists are starting to assemble is a regional picture of how mastodons lived. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z In other words, American mastodons were not locked into a narrow niche but were flexible, variable animals that were part of a broad population. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Other animals that lived in ancient Aucilla – like tapirs and giant ground sloths – could have made their own additions to the pile, but the bulk of the evidence suggests mastodons as the primary contributors. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z In April, crews working on the Purple Line expansion under Wilshire Boulevard found bones from an ancient camel and mammoth or mastodon. Bone fragment from ancient 1,500-pound ground sloth unearthed beneath Crenshaw Boulevard 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s unlikely that humans extirpated the Midwest’s mastodons. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z But why lavish so much attention on mastodons? Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Conifer branches, osage oranges, and other mastodon fare scratched and pitted the bumpy molars of these elephants. At the Ice Age Salad Bar 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Overall, though, the plant profile suggests that the mastodons were feeding in the wetland environment around the sinkhole in forests dominated by cypress, and that they were doing so from late summer through the fall. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The remains of an ancient camel and a mastodon or mammoth were discovered earlier this year during excavation beneath Wilshire Boulevard as the city expanded the Metro's Purple Line. Giant sloth remains found in Los Angeles - BBC News 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z And, in fact, a new study by paleontologist Chris Widga and colleagues only adds to the mystery of why our mastodons disappeared practically yesterday. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In his conference presentation, Dooley explained how he was initially impressed with the molars of Max, the museum’s mastodon mascot. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “You, too, here, with the mastodon ‘Grand Est’ imposed on you. The Future of Europe Hinges on a Face-Off in France 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Their diet and habits can’t be taken as a given for the entire species, especially since it highlights the fact that American mastodons enjoyed a diverse diet based on what was available. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Researchers, too, reported this week that they had found markings on 130,000-year-old mastodon bones discovered near San Diego. No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z That’s what the new paper by Widga and colleagues focuses on, tracking the fate of the American mastodon in the center of North America. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z As goes the mastodon, so goes the Ice Age. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The finding, based on examination of mastodon bones found near San Diego, would upend our understanding of the arrival of people in the Americas. California Today: Pondering Life in California 130,000 Years Ago 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The twigs and plant debris were shredded, pinched, and mashed, just like plant material found in the guts of mastodons elsewhere. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z More than 100,000 years before they were supposed to have arrived in the Americas, these unknown people used five heavy stones to break the bones of a mastodon. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z For now, there’s just no evidence that people drove the American mastodon to extinction. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z They seemed big, and a preserved piece of Max’s femur reinforced the idea that he was a mastodon of unusual size. Valley of the Mastodons 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Rocks found alongside the mastodon remains show signs of wear and being struck against other objects, the researchers say. First Americans claim sparks controversy - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Despite the diversity of plants in the dung deposits, though, the mastodons spent a great deal of time chewing twigs. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The biggest find was a partial skeleton from a single American mastodon. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Why can’t I still see mastodons pushing over trees when I hike up into the foothills around my Salt Lake City home? Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The bold and fiercely disputed claim, published in the journal Nature, is based on a study of mastodon bones discovered near San Diego. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z They couldn’t use radiocarbon dating on the mastodon remains because the bones lacked carbon-containing collagen protein. Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Skeletal evidence has already indicated that the mastodons from Aucilla were not the same as those in other parts of the country. Talking Crap about Mastodons 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z They attempted to date fossils using the uranium-thorium method, which measures radioactive decay of uranium. But the technique was not very reliable at the time, so the Cerutti mastodon remained an enigma. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Large carnivores – think short-faced bears, sabercats, and the like – are rarely found in Midwest sites of the same age as the mastodons. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In 1992, construction workers dug up the mastodon bones while clearing earth to build a sound barrier along Route 54 in San Diego County. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The jaw-dropping claim, made in Nature1, is based on broken rocks and mastodon bones found in California that a team of researchers say point to human activity. Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The partial remains of the American mastodon, a long gone relative of the modern elephant, were discovered in San Diego in the winter of 1992 during a freeway expansion project. Could history of humans in North America be rewritten by broken bones? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The breaks on the mastodon fossils looked as though they were human-caused, he said. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z By preying on young mammoths and mastodons, these carnivores helped control their population and shaped the landscape. Trundling toward Extinction 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z When he and his colleagues closely examined the rocks found near the mastodon fossils, they also found scratch marks. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The team contends that the rocks recovered from the site were used either to extract the mastodon’s bone marrow or for making more-delicate bone tools. Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In one layer they found the mastodon, a beast that could reach a height of three metres and weighed eight tonnes when fully grown. Could history of humans in North America be rewritten by broken bones? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z There's no evidence that anyone hunted or butchered the mastodon for meat, but it definitely seemed to him like some human or human cousin had cracked the bones. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The Nature analysis focuses on remains from a single mastodon, and five stones found nearby. Neanderthals in California? Maybe so, provocative study says 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Michael R. Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, and his colleagues reported that a stone knife and mastodon bones with cut marks found in a Florida sinkhole are about 14,500 years old. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z There are no obvious cut marks on the mastodon bone, suggesting that the animal wasn’t killed or butchered for its meat. Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Unlike the wolf and horse bones found in other layers at the site, the ends of some of the mastodon bones had been broken off, as if to extract nutritious bone marrow. Could history of humans in North America be rewritten by broken bones? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Or perhaps the mastodon site is a fluke — or a mistake — and they will find nothing at all. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The looming question is who, or what, might have dismembered this mastodon so long ago. Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than We Thought? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But the mastodon bones in San Diego are vastly older than any others said to show evidence of human manipulation — so old that they may not represent the work of our own species. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The mammoth or mastodon fossil was found April 12. Another set of fossils discovered at Metro subway excavation site 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The history of the people of America, a story that dates back to the last ice age, has been upended by the battered bones of a mastodon found under a freeway construction site in California. Could history of humans in North America be rewritten by broken bones? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z He doesn't think the cobbles found at the Cerutti mastodon site meet that standard. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Geological Survey, determined that the mastodon remains were a hundred and thirty thousand years old. Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than We Thought? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The team discovered more scattered bone fragments, all of which seemed to have come from a single mastodon. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In November, a 3-foot section of tusk fragments, fragments of a mastodon tooth as well as partial skull and tusks, believed to belong to an ancient elephant, were found at the Purple Line excavation site. Another set of fossils discovered at Metro subway excavation site 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The mastodon broke its left shoulder and lost a tusk in a windstorm. Kitschy foam dinosaurs outlive extinct Ohio amusement park 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z For another, as he pointed out, the mastodon's molars were also crushed, and there's no reason he can think of that humans would crack the huge teeth. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The fragments and fracturing that resulted were virtually identical to what they saw on the mastodon bones in San Diego. Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than We Thought? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of hard to envision a carnivore strong enough to break a mastodon leg bone,” he said. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Forest Service site features pre-historic bison bones and the tooth of a giant mastodon. Pre-historic bison bones, mastodon tooth in Illinois exhibit 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the United States, a mastodon skeleton was found in New York in a pit dug to extract limestone fertilizer. When Calif. builders dig, paleontologists are there to bag the fossils — even whales 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z That is partly why they have made 3-D images of the mastodon fossils available online. Archaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The site was rich with fossils tens of thousands of years old, including the remains of a camel, a horse, a dire wolf, a ground sloth, and, most impressive, a mastodon. Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than We Thought? 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Dr. Deméré and his colleagues rejected the idea that all these changes could be the work of predators attacking the mastodon. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Bear left to visit Lake Pit, where statues of mastodons struggle to free themselves from the still-active tar. Take a great L.A. walk around the La Brea Tar Pits 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z When construction at a resort uncovered skeletons of mammoths and mastodons in 2010, the museum hustled to raise $1 million to recover them. When Calif. builders dig, paleontologists are there to bag the fossils — even whales 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The outdoor childhoods – urban or rural – that people of my age enjoyed are seen by our children in the same light as extinct mastodons and public hangings: exotic, frightening and impossibly distant. Our greatest peril? Screening ourselves off from reality | George Monbiot 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The law, which became effective in July 2016, imposed a near-total ban on the commercial trading of African elephant ivory, as well as teeth or tusks from hippopotamuses, mammoths, mastodons, walruses, warthogs, whales and narwhals. State authorities seize hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of illicit ivory in Los Angeles County 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Dr. Deméré speculated that the humans might have been trying to get marrow out of the mastodon bones to eat, while using fragments of the bones to fashion tools. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In 1931, a newspaper article documented the finding of a bone in Delavan Lake, which some thought to be from a prehistoric mastodon. Elephants both the heart, demise of Greatest Show on Earth 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “Not only was it complete, it was mostly undisturbed,” said Daniel Fisher, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan who helped excavate the Fowler Center mastodon. How a Mastodon’s Teeth Found in Michigan May Tell Us How It Died 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Colling was on his knees Saturday at the site on the Fowler Center property, uncovering with trowel and bare hands another large mastodon leg bone. Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan’s Thumb 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Bones of a mastodon were found in Mayville two years ago. Local teachers, U-Mich. crew will dig for mastodon bones 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The researchers argued that these couldn’t have been brought together by a violent current, and that people must have carried the rocks to the mastodon. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But in the late 1990s, a group of prominent archaeologists examined a hunk of mastodon meat and the remains of huts uncovered at Monte Verde in southern Chile. How did the first Americans get here? A story of boats, bones and ice 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The discovery of a stone knife fragment in Florida proves that humans colonized the area about 14,550 years ago and coexisted with mastodons. Your Tuesday Briefing 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Colling was with students two years ago when they found the first mastodon bone in the creek. Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan’s Thumb 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Clutching sharp stone knives, they hacked at the tusk of a slain mastodon, slicing meat away from the long bone. Ancient tools and bone found in Florida could help rewrite the story of the first Americans 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z For years, Dr. Deméré and his colleagues struggled to figure out how long ago the mastodon died. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “That means that however humans and mastodons interacted, it took at least two millennia for the process of extinction to run to completion,” he said at a press conference. Sinkhole discovery suggests ancient humans in Florida 14,500 years ago 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The Chronicle says McGarry’s largest project was Michigan’s Heritage Park in Whitehall Township, an outdoor attraction with replica mastodon bones, wigwams and farmhouses representing 10,000 years of Michigan history. Michigan historian dies on visit to Civil War battlefield 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They excavated stone tools including a biface, a stone knife useful for butchering animals, and bones of extinct big mammals including camels, bison, horses and mastodons. Remarkable evidence of ancient humans found under Florida river 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But the discovery of tools and a butchered mastodon bone suggest that humans and these large animals co-existed for at least 1,500 years. Ancient tools and bone found in Florida could help rewrite the story of the first Americans 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z If early humans really did smash those mastodon bones 130,000 years ago, scientists will have to rethink how humans came to the Americas. Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z At the Florida site, the researchers analyzed twigs in fossilized mastodon dung to date the bones and artifacts, finding them to be about 14,550 years old. Sinkhole discovery suggests ancient humans in Florida 14,500 years ago 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Another key finding comes from an analysis of sporormiella, a fungus whose lifecycle depends on being consumed and then excreted by large herbivores like mammoth and mastodon. Stone Knife and Mastodon Bones Point to Earlier Arrival of First Americans The artifacts painted a picture of human hunter-gatherers butchering or scavenging a mastodon, an extinct elephant cousin, next to a small inland pond. Remarkable evidence of ancient humans found under Florida river 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Of course, they probably went for the mastodons. Humans and Mastodons Coexisted in Florida, New Evidence Shows 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But at 12,600 years ago, all traces of that fungus vanishes—suggesting that the mastodons themselves may have disappeared from the region around that time. Ancient stone tools are ‘best’ evidence yet for early peopling of the Americas 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The scientists also examined a mastodon tusk recovered in 1993, and confirmed that its long, deep grooves were made by people, probably as they worked to remove the tusk from a skull. Early snowbirds? Florida sinkhole yields ancient artifacts 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z A thousand years before big-game hunters who used so-called Clovis spearpoints spread across North America, earlier arrivals were living near Florida’s Aucilla River alongside mastodon and other animals now long extinct. Stone Knife and Mastodon Bones Point to Earlier Arrival of First Americans Like stumbling twin mastodons, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fell into the abortion tar pit this past week. Camille Paglia: Feminists have abortion wrong, Trump and Hillary miscues highlight a frozen national debate 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The pond was probably frequented by mastodons and other extinct mammals, like ancient bison and rhinoceroses. Humans and Mastodons Coexisted in Florida, New Evidence Shows 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, excavations there turned up a handful of stone tools and some mastodon bones that appeared to have been butchered. Ancient stone tools are ‘best’ evidence yet for early peopling of the Americas 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Laws also ban the sale of walrus, mammoth and mastodon ivory – materials legally used by indigenous artists in Alaska, and an economic lifeline to native communities in that state. Will an ivory ban criminalize indigenous artists' work in Alaska? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Archaeologists discovered mastodon bones and stone tools made by early Americans in the same layer of riverbed sediment. Stone Knife and Mastodon Bones Point to Earlier Arrival of First Americans But the closing went through, endangering a trove of 10 million artifacts, from mastodon bones to Native American tools, collected over 138 years, and now just languishing in the shuttered building. Our Natural History, Endangered 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z He’s seen a pile of 10,000-year-old mastodon bones in the Mammoth system. Mapping Mammoth: Cave diver explores unknown passages 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Over the course of two seasons, Halligan and Waters discovered butchered mastodon bones and a handful of other stone tools, though none as old or technically impressive as the biface. Ancient stone tools are ‘best’ evidence yet for early peopling of the Americas 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z This is only the second mastodon skeleton ever found in Virginia. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z More than 14,500 years ago, a spring-fed pond served as an important water source for mastodons and the early Americans who hunted them. Stone Knife and Mastodon Bones Point to Earlier Arrival of First Americans The show felt like a slightly depressed wedding reception for a mastodon. Finding the future of live music in a Krakow salt mine and more Unsound revelations 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z To trace their evolution, the researchers made a large-scale comparison of elephants to other mammal species — including extinct relatives like woolly mammoths and mastodons whose DNA remains in their fossils. Elephants: Large, Long-Living and Less Prone to Cancer 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z For thousands of years, the sediments were full of that fungus, suggesting the presence of megafauna like mastodons. Ancient stone tools are ‘best’ evidence yet for early peopling of the Americas 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z About 25 percent of the bones and teeth that a single mastodon would have had were recovered, and they will be studied for years. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z A mastodon tusk discovered in a sinkhole in the Aucilla River shows clear signs of human contact, according to a new analysis. Stone Knife and Mastodon Bones Point to Earlier Arrival of First Americans The idea of downtime went the way of the mastodon. Exploring the Mysteries of the Brain 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Visitors learn about the connection between mammoths and mastodons and their modern cousins, elephants. Field Museum extends ‘Mammoths and Mastodons’ exhibit 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s hard, anyway, to embrace unanimous No. 1 teams and other mastodons. Ohio State Buckeyes have become a monster that people can embrace 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z One mastodon expert, Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan, thinks that the bones found in 1983 came from two different animals because of differences in the size of the toe bones. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Atlantic City, formerly a breeding ground for big ideas, was now a tar pit—trapping financial mastodons and big-eyed dreamers, whether or not their intentions were pure, as the capricious gods of commerce looked on. The Fight to Save Atlantic City 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z A potential exception was the Western Museum, whose curator, aware that he couldn’t attract the public with arrowheads and mastodon bones, had begun importing wax figures. Reading American cities: books about Cincinnati 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z At least 12,000 years ago, a mastodon with a toothache died on top of a pile of seashells beside a creek near what is now Yorktown, Virginia. Mastodon emerges from a Virginia creek, three decades after first remains found 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The shells of oysters, scallops and other bivalves neutralized the acid of the rain,protecting the bones and teeth of the mastodon. Digging up what? It’s a mastodon. And it’s in Virginia. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z For more than a week this year he dug along a creek in Yorktown, Va., searching for mastodon bones and finding nothing. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Among the features are a replica mastodon skeleton, American Indian wigwams, an English fur-trader’s cabin, a Civil War camp and a 1900 farm house. Wigwams, farm life taught at new Michigan’s Heritage Park 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “Every day I walk down the halls and I see shelves and shelves of mastodon bones,” he says. Illinois science museum is pawn in budget fight 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The shells of oysters, scallops and other bivalves neutralised the acid of the rain, protecting the bones and teeth of the mastodon. Mastodon emerges from a Virginia creek, three decades after first remains found 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Among other things, several mastodon bones that were found in the Delta are now more prominently displayed. Museum of the Mississippi Delta reopens with fresh look 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The age of the mastodon bones is unknown. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “They use parts from tusks of mastodon and mammoth.” Musicians worry about instruments on trip back from Cuba 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But new evidence indicates mastodons probably roamed the region as far back as 120,000 years ago—and they were gone before the first people showed up. Humans Off the Hook For Alaskan Mastodon Extinction 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Scholars today like to laugh at Urquhart, particularly at his alleged belief that mastodons transported the stones. The Myth of the Megalith 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But scientists think mastodons, woolly mammoths and ground sloths once ate them, helping to spread the tree around the Americas. Champion trees have their fans in Montgomery County Johnson has dubbed the remains “the Hart-Fiscella mastodon” in honor of the bricklayer who found the first molar and for a particularly generous pair of donors, Edward and George Fiscella. Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The Hungarian bows seized in New York all had documentation listing their ivory elements as mastodon, but federal authorities believed they contained elephant ivory. Musicians worry about instruments on trip back from Cuba 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “It’s the first real reconstruction of the mastodon,” he said. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Boy finds ancient arrowhead on N.J. beach: A boy playing on a New Jersey beach has unearthed a 10,000-year-old arrowhead possibly used by ancient Native Americans to spear fish or hunt mastodon. Five family members killed in Long Island car crash Past discoveries include bones from camels, mastodons and mammoths; stone points; pottery; and a petrified tree trunk. Fossil identification event set at Ashfall park 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z In the Senate, Begich is a junior figure, moving through the chamber’s power structure at the speed of a mastodon trapped in a glacier. Senate Democrat’s reelection pitch to Alaskans: I’m a thorn in Obama’s side “That one’s ivory, and that one’s mastodon,” he said. Musicians worry about instruments on trip back from Cuba 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The museum curators asked him to help design a mastodon after they excavated the bones of a large mastodon near Aspen and Snowmass in a dig a few years ago. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z And finally, one groom-to-be may actually remember his bachelor party in New Mexico after his group found a mastodon fossil while living it up one last time. Watch: New Artificial Pancreas Controlled by Smartphone App 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “No doubt there may be benefits. But using proxies is a risk. If you put back wolves, fine. But it’s very different than putting elephants in Kansas because there used to be mastodons there.” From Untended Farmland, Reserve Tries to Recreate Wilderness From Long Ago 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Siemens would pay dearly to keep the American engineering mastodon off its European patch. Corporate takeovers: Return of the big deal 2014-05-01T15:00:12Z At the end of the last Ice Age 9,000 to 13,000 years ago, for example, mammoths and mastodons went extinct in part due to hunting by humans. Seeking long-lived mammals, paleontologist finds two that lasted at least 23 million years 2014-04-21T20:14:14Z “It’s been very interesting because there is no soft tissue, no flesh ever found of a mastodon,” Ullberg said. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Novak instead entered a graduate program at the McMaster Ancient DNA Center in Hamilton, Ontario, where he worked on the sequencing of mastodon DNA. The Mammoth Cometh 2014-02-27T10:00:19Z Mammoths and mastodons are related and probably roamed the Earth around the same time. Construction worker digs up mammoth tusk 2014-02-16T19:15:00Z They appeared in America about 13,000 years ago and hunted mammoth, mastodon and bison. Ancient American's genome mapped 2014-02-13T13:51:19Z A Michigan charity that collects donated clothing, shoes and other items for low-income people got a really old castoff in a donation box: a mastodon tooth. Mastodon tooth turns up at Michigan charity 2013-10-11T18:28:21Z He kept quiet for two years about the mastodon project, respecting the wishes of the museum’s public relations department. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Back then, mastodons roamed the earth, the polar ice caps were smaller and the sea level was as much as 60 to 80 feet higher. Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change 2013-05-15T00:14:26Z It was too late to use them for my thesis and the mastodon work was going too slowly to finish in the master's timeline, so I took a year off. Turning point: Ben Novak 2013-05-08T17:20:58.787Z I will never observe black-bear-sized beavers through binoculars in their natural habitats, build experimental exclosures to test the effects of mastodons on plants, or even observe a giant ground sloth in a zoo. Cloning woolly mammoths: it's the ecology, stupid 2013-03-18T16:15:31.110Z “He sent an account of a mastodon skeleton.” Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science 2012-09-03T19:06:06Z Ullberg set up a studio on First Street 20 years ago to be near the foundry, which is where he worked full time on the mastodon. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Maybe you are “new school” and will choose to eat only the meat of giant sloths and mastodons, in doing so, ignoring your bacteria. Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians 2012-07-23T14:45:00.387Z I travelled to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, to sample other mastodon fossils. Turning point: Ben Novak 2013-05-08T17:20:58.787Z Against this giant jewel even Jules Verne’s middle-Earth mastodons and ichthyosaurs would be pretty thin gruel. Earth’s Core: The Enigma 1,800 Miles Below Us 2012-05-28T19:27:17Z We’re pretty sure that mastodons and pirates never actually lived at the same time, but it’s just a movie, right? Summer movie guide for kids 2012-05-27T21:40:02Z Ullberg said the mastodon brings him full circle from where he started 40 years ago. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z He had the bones of a mastodon, an animal from 40 million years ago that looked a bit like an elephant, sent to him at the White House. 10 things you didn?t know about Thomas Jefferson 2011-06-30T20:38:26Z Some of these relics of mastodon and mammoth were actually hung up in churches as evidence that “there were giants in those days”! Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Present examples, such as these, should make a naturalist hesitate before coming to the conclusion that Siberian wilds, even as now, were wholly incompatible with the existence and support of troops of mammoths or mastodons. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The Jarl drives out with four large moose, or mastodon, attached to his chariot, which are harnessed in pairs, the inside horns of each being cut so that they will not interlock. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Ullberg’s mastodon was a scientific reconstruction and a team effort among scientists from the museum in Denver, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and a Michigan university. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The relic proved to be a part of a mastodon's lower jaw, having two teeth still in place. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z "You see, His Grand, that she has thought of mastodons," commented Dolly. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z If so, it might be an ancient, primitive social behavior for proboscidians, including such distant cousins of elephants as mastodons. Ancient Elephants Followed the (Female) Leader 2012-02-22T00:02:00Z It is said of Cuvier that such was his knowledge of comparative anatomy, that from the smallest fragment of bone he could reconstruct the frame of a mastodon, or of any extinct animal. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Ullberg said the mastodon will be placed at the museum in late September. Loveland sculptor creates a mastodon for museum 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z They mistook the bones of the mastodon for those of human beings, and by them proudly proved that "there were giants in those days." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Mr. Sandford, who had rejoined us, once found here the large grinders of a mastodon, which are now in the possession of General Clarke, at St. Louis. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Had the bear been a mastodon or a megatherium it would have been all the same to the panic-stricken ram. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Among them are many giant beasts, including mammoths, mastodons and the short-faced bear. Remarkable Creatures: At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways 2012-01-23T20:56:41Z A tooth of a mastodon has been dug up near the Ashley river in South Carolina. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z I work in a vast museum at a table all alone, surrounded by skeletons of mastodons, crocodiles and the like, with the walls hung about with monsters and horrors enough to freeze the blood. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z However for a country to adopt this as a strategy and merely wait for the mastodons to die risks being economically disastrous. Innovation: Should We Just Let The Mastodons Die? 2011-12-06T22:33:39Z The bluffs along the river rise in many places two hundred and fifty feet, and contain shells, with the remains of the mastodon, elephant, tapir, megalonyx, and other huge animals. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z The mammoth and mastodon have already been cited as instances of animals that have unaccountably become extinct, and these examples are chosen from among many on account of their striking nature. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z In the 1970s, the bones of a mastodon – a large mammal that resembled a mammoth – was uncovered by a farmer named Emanuel Manis near Sequim, Washington. CT Scans Reveal Evidence of Ancient Human Hunters in North America 2011-10-21T05:20:51Z Additionally, DNA and protein sequencing of the rib and the bone point matched mastodon genetic material. Tool Found in Mastodon Fossil Supports Role of Human Hunters in Megafauna Extinction 2011-10-20T20:45:10.873Z The study, in the journal Science, finds that a mastodon rib with a bone point lodged in it dates back 13,800 years. Observatory: Mastodon Hunt Adds to Evidence of Pre-Clovis Settlement 2011-10-20T18:20:07Z The show includes mastodon hunting before Clovis, globalization and West Nile virus, the search for the "sterile neutrino," and more. [Podcast] Science Podcast 2011-10-20T18:26:17.327Z As for the size of the mastodon, this, like that of the mammoth, is popularly much over-estimated, and it is more than doubtful if any attained the height of a full-grown African elephant. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z CT scans of the mastodon rib were taken. CT Scans Reveal Evidence of Ancient Human Hunters in North America 2011-10-21T05:20:51Z The humans who killed the mastodon were "carrying a toolkit that was durable, lethal and portable", Waters says. Tool Found in Mastodon Fossil Supports Role of Human Hunters in Megafauna Extinction 2011-10-20T20:45:10.873Z There he found a surface of ten acres entirely without trees or vegetable life of any kind, while scattered around were many bones both of the mastodon and the arctic elephant. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z Atom and star and flesh, These are but forms of the Soul; Amoeba, mastodon, man, But forms of the Soul forever ascending! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z Thus bones of the mastodon, as well as those of the mammoth, have done duty as those of giants. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z However, one of the mastadon’s ribs showed bone growth that appeared to be a spearhead that hit the mastodon some time before it was finally killed. CT Scans Reveal Evidence of Ancient Human Hunters in North America 2011-10-21T05:20:51Z It died at the hands of humans wielding a bone projectile made from the skeleton of another mastodon. Tool Found in Mastodon Fossil Supports Role of Human Hunters in Megafauna Extinction 2011-10-20T20:45:10.873Z Many great and dangerous animals then existed, and it was a necessity to kill off the cave bear, the cave tiger and the mastodon. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The Norwich Crag Series, sometimes called the "Mammaliferous Crag," as at its base the bones of mastodon, elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and some deer have been found. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Koch reported finding charcoal and arrowheads so associated with mastodon bones that he inferred the animal to have been destroyed by fire and arrows after it became mired. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z And then there is the issue of mastodons. Biologist Finds Himself Spending Way too Much Time Thinking about a Discovery he Might Have Made on Jon Stewart's Body 2011-08-15T12:45:10.060Z "One hunted mastodon obviously does not demonstrate that hunting caused the extinction of this species or any other," says paleontologist Adrian Lister of the Natural History Museum in London. Tool Found in Mastodon Fossil Supports Role of Human Hunters in Megafauna Extinction 2011-10-20T20:45:10.873Z Possibly thousands of years ago the mastodon trod upon it, and the ichthyosaurus paddled it into the sea. The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.300Z I tell you, Judy, the day of mastodons is at hand! Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z Perhaps an exception should be made in the case of Professor J. M. Clarke, who found fragments of charcoal in a deposit of muck under some bones of mastodon. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Once, we killed mastodons for their meat, meat made mostly of proteins, proteins made of amino acids. Biologist Finds Himself Spending Way too Much Time Thinking about a Discovery he Might Have Made on Jon Stewart's Body 2011-08-15T12:45:10.060Z About 13,800 years ago, a mastodon in North America met a somewhat ironic end. Tool Found in Mastodon Fossil Supports Role of Human Hunters in Megafauna Extinction 2011-10-20T20:45:10.873Z Noon is now becoming as extinct as the mastodon. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Something very big — a mammoth tusk taller than LeBron James, a partial mastodon skull half the size of a Smart Car — was turning up every few days. Pleistocene Treasures, at a Breakneck Pace 2011-07-04T19:42:29Z The grinders of the mastodon have three cross ridges, save the last, which has four, and a final elevation, or heel. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z A mastodon would not be overwhelmed by the vastness of the universe. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z He's got a set of chessmen he made durin' the long winter evenin's out of ivory from the tusk of an old mastodon we found on a little creek some time ago. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z Now you see how mastodons are found, with hair and flesh intact, imbedded in Siberian ice. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z For instance, will the growth rings of mastodon or mammoth tusks found here differ from those of cousins found at low altitude sites, hinting at permanent mountain residence? Pleistocene Treasures, at a Breakneck Pace 2011-07-04T19:42:29Z There is some uncertainty as to whether the mammoth was a mastodon, or the mastodon a mammoth, and there is a great deal of misconception as to the size and abundance of this big beast. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z I remembered that once the immense mastodon roamed through America. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Admitting that human remains are found along with those of the mammoth in Europe, and with those of the mastodon in America, the question remains, How late did these species survive? The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z If mammoths or mastodons were also around, their shoulder height ranged from 10 to 15 feet. Scientist at Work: An Ancient Watery Underworld 2011-05-25T15:40:40Z From the time that Mr. Debs was successfully shackled by the courts, the strikers were like some great beheaded mastodon, staggering about, vainly endeavoring to retain the dying spark of life. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z The thigh-bone of an old male mastodon measures from forty-five to forty-six and one-half inches long, the humerus from thirty-five to forty inches. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Would it not have been as well had the series stopped with the huge saurians of the primeval slime, or the mastodon and mammoth of the pre-historic times, as with the man. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Nearly thirty caves examined by this explorer failed to yield any remains either of the mastodon, mammoth, and horse, or of early man, elsewhere so often associated with these animals. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Cut to Cuddy, who is apparently taking 200 mg pills of zolpidem, better known as Ambien, which would be enough to put down a mastodon. House Watch: Return to the Dark Side 2011-03-15T07:35:00Z They have just extracted the fortieth skeleton of hippopotamus; have got about twenty elephants, one or two mastodons, a rhinoceros and stags, and oxen out of number.... Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Moreover, in the mastodons the roots of the teeth are long prongs, while in the elephants the roots are small and irregular. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z In the tertiary beds of America have been found mastodons, elephants, rhinoceroses, deer, camels, foxes, wolves, horses, whales, and other mammalia. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Bones are very numerous and in great variety, from the saurian and mastodon to the minutest reptile, ranging in point of time from the remotest ages to the present day. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z That was very good news for your most-distant ancestors — and very bad news for a long-ago mastodon. How Good Pitching Saved the Human Species 2011-01-26T07:25:00Z To my left loomed the absurd bulk of the upturned trolley, on its back with wheels in air, looking for all the world a stupid mastodon puppy. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z The disappearance of the mastodon is as difficult to account for as that of the mammoth, and, as will be noted, there is absolutely no evidence to show that man had any hand in it. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z With the elephant and the mastodon he could not cope nor would they molest him. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z This may be the ancestral home of the dodo or the mastodon. Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z In the new study, researchers compared nuclear DNA from living elephants as well as from a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth bone from Siberia and from a 50,000- to 130,000-year-old North American mastodon tooth. Genes Separate Africa?s Elephant Herds 2010-12-22T16:20:00Z The teams compared the genetic code of modern elephants from Africa and Asia to DNA taken from two extinct species -- the woolly mammoth and the American mastodon. Africa has two species of elephants, not one 2010-12-21T22:02:03Z The name mastodon is given to a number of species of fossil elephants differing from the true elephants, of which the mammoth is an example, in the structure of the teeth. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Dr. Dickeson found, in the yellow loam of the Mississippi at Natchez, a human pelvic bone along with the bones of the mastodon and megalonyx. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The researchers compared sequences of DNA from the nuclei of African and Asian elephants, and from woolly mammoths and the American mastodon. African elephant 'is two species' 2010-12-21T21:53:26Z A genetic analysis of elephants and their extinct relatives, woolly mammoths and mastodons, shows that forest-dwelling African elephants are a separate species from Africa’s savanna elephants. Genes Separate Africa?s Elephant Herds 2010-12-22T16:20:00Z Roca said comparing the genetic sequence of the mastodon -- a very distant cousin of the other species -- allowed the researchers to see where in evolution the elephants split. Africa has two species of elephants, not one 2010-12-21T22:02:03Z There is another hint of relationship in the upper tusks of the earlier mastodons, and this is the presence of a band of enamel running down each tusk. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Six miles of the gorge have been excavated since that mastodon was alive.... A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The mastodon became extinct about 10,000 years ago - around the same time that mammoths disappeared from most of their range. African elephant 'is two species' 2010-12-21T21:53:26Z For all their storied past as co-prancers with mastodons, musk oxen are not huge animals. Basics: Musk Oxen Live to Tell a Survivors? Tale 2010-12-14T05:23:01Z Sometimes officials stumble upon large fossils by chance; in 2008 the police found a dinosaur jawbone thought to be that of a mastodon in the cargo hold of a bus. Buried in Peru?s Desert, Marine Fossils Draw Smugglers 2010-12-12T00:40:00Z Our cave-dwelling ancestors were consumed with immediate concerns—run from the lion, kill the mastodon, get out of the rain. 'The Shallows': Is the Net Fostering Stupidity? 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z On the left, and in the rear, is the mastodon, the remains of which are found in both North and South America, though of different species. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The researchers also made what they say are the first sequences of nuclear DNA from the extinct American mastodon. in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. African elephant 'is two species' 2010-12-21T21:53:26Z In that period, known as the Pleistocene epoch, many large mammals like mammoths, mastodons, dire wolves and short-faced bears became extinct. Move Over, Polar Bear 2010-05-27T11:58:00Z Almost a third of the big, so-called "charismatic" animals – the ones with the most popular appeal for humans, such as mammoths and mastodons, dire wolves and short-faced bears – went extinct. Small Mammals?and Rest of Food Chain?at Greater Risk From Global Warming Than Thought 2010-05-25T16:06:00Z That was useful for outrunning mastodons—but counterproductive for sitting at the computer. Blame Evolution for Disease 2010-02-23T03:02:00Z The valley between Incisa and Arezzo contains accumulations of fossil bones of the deer, elephant, rhinoceros, mastodon, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" A much more archaic type of elephant, the mastodon, flourished beside its gigantic cousin. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open He says that Cain employed mastodons to do his moving. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise In addition to the above there are several indefinite records of mastodon remains from the county. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 "Those woolly mastodons with long curving tusks were lots bigger than the elephant." Tahara Among African Tribes These recent shells are associated with the bones of the mastodon, elephant, tapir, mylodon, horse, ox, and other quadrupeds, most of them of extinct species. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The mastodons represented a stage farther back in the evolutionary line than the true elephants, and in the Old World they died out completely before the latter disappeared even from Europe and Siberia. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Cain did employ mastodons, but only for his light work. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise It would be folly however to prophesy a world from which disaster has disappeared on the heels of the mastodon. The Book of This and That There is, however, some evidence of the coexistence of man with the mastodon and other postglacial animals in Illinois and elsewhere. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science A man like Merlin would be very useful in these days, but his kind is very much like the leviathans and mastodons that lived before the flood. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 The mastodon was a relatively squat creature, standing certainly four feet shorter than the imperial elephant, with comparatively small and slightly curved tusks and a flatter head. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Even mastodons would balk at pulling stones like these. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Jefferson accordingly did so, bringing with him the bones of a mastodon, lately discovered, and a little manuscript book written in his law-student days, marked “Parliamentary Pocket-Book.” Thomas Jefferson Just as out of a mastodon's molar, Cuvier used to build up the whole monster, never omitting a rib, nor forgetting a vertebra! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance It sometimes happens that a farmer, digging a well on the prairie, strikes the skeleton of a monster mammal, called the mastodon. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Enormous numbers of mastodons ranged over what is now the United States, and the adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Then to think of the infinite numbers of smaller fellow mortals, invisibly small, compared with which the smallest ants are as mastodons. My First Summer in the Sierra I remember," continued Shir K'han, "one of our archeologists translated an account of how the primates of your time unearthed the body of a mastodon, buried in the glacial ice. Deepfreeze The ant had subdued the mastodon; the pygmy had taken the thunderbolt prisoner. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 The pieces he had made with much skill from the hard tusk of a huge mastodon skeleton, which he had unearthed in a deep creek. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon The towering imperial elephants and the burly mastodons trumpeted their approach one to the other. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open He left the box, walking off into the gathering crowd, and this mastodon seemed to spring into being where the shoebox had been. Political Application The mastodon flesh, a delicacy, was so well-preserved that it was still edible. Deepfreeze There are earls and countesses as there used to be mastodons and other senseless, over-grown brutes roaming miserable and hungry through the undrained woods,—cold, comfortless, unwieldy things, which have perished in the general progress. Lady Anna He is a shore frequenter, especially when young, and I cannot help thinking that in antediluvian days when mastodons were plentiful and went wading they stepped on the flounders. Old Plymouth Trails Can and the members of his family worshipped Deity under the symbol of the mastodon’s head. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa He consoled himself with the reflection that this human mastodon probably knew what it was about. The Monk of Hambleton The point is," said the feline interpreter, "that it would have made no difference to the primates had the mastodon been intelligent. Deepfreeze I hold it probable that there may be yonder living examples of the mastodon, whose bones we have found in Kentucky. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman Soon he received four feet and the rank of a mastodon, with the privilege of roaming over the land. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland We see it in the figures represented in the act of worshiping the mastodon’s head, on the west façade of the monument that forms the north wing of the palace and museum at Chichen-Itza. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa I can only say that, being transacted in such objectionable proximity to myself, the thing was as impressive as any combat of mastodon and iguanodon could have been to primitive man. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Its staff was mastodon ivory, the paleontologists had determined. Zero Data He pushed forward with a savage summoning of his last ounce of energy and Fuller's weight was that of a mastodon upon him. Vulcan's Workshop Three species of mastodon and the gigantic megatherium were the only extinct mammalia known from South America previous to Darwin’s voyage. Life of Charles Darwin This is the reason why the mastodon’s head forms so prominent a feature in all the ornaments of the edifices built by them. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the largest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The skeletons that have been exhumed indicate that it was the feeding ground of the giant mastodon before the discovery of America. The story of Kentucky "What is it?" asked Will, "a mammoth or a mastodon?" The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The mastodon, of which several species have been discovered on the banks of the Hudson, in Kentucky, in Louisiana, in the plains of Quito, in France, and finally on the borders of the Irrawaddy. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The worship of the mastodon, still extant in India, Siam, Burmah, as in the worship of Ganeza, the god of knowledge, with an elephant head, degenerated in that of the elephant itself. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa The huge mastodon, with his enormous length of body, and his tusks projecting from both upper and under jaw, stands erect in the middle of the floor,—a giant skeleton. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed “I maintain,” asserted McArthur, with a gesture of emphasis, “that the Paleolithic man of Europe followed the mastodon to North America and here remained.” 'Me--Smith' "Don't know mammoth and don't know mastodon," replied Pehansan, shaking his head, "but do know it is the biggest of all animals my eyes have ever seen." The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The mastodons alone may be considered as forming a separate genus, now unknown, but closely approaching to the elephant. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 By determining the epoch when the mastodon became extinct. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants,—its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths,—cumbered the soil. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed I followed the fence, and here I am—I and my companion”—McArthur patted the skull lovingly—“this giant—the slayer of mastodons—whose history lies concealed in ‘the dark backward and abysm of time’!” 'Me--Smith' He still had the feeling that he was creeping upon a mammoth or mastodon, and the low puffing and blowing increased in volume, indicating very clearly that it came from mighty lungs. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Instead of a lower jaw a foot long, as in an elephant or in the common kind of mastodon—this long-jawed kind had a lower jaw 5 feet or 6 feet long! More Science From an Easy Chair I will keep you reverently, as one preserves the cloak of a great man, or the bones of a mastodon. A Black Adonis Even in America, however, that period lies far beyond the reach of human tradition,—a fact borne out by the pseudo-traditions retailed by the aborigines regarding the mastodon. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The geological formation where these remains were found is reported to be “as old as the drift strata of Europe,” and “identical with that of Guayaquil in which bones of the mastodon are met with.” Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Between them they carried the most perfectly preserved mastodon tusk Johnny had ever seen. Panther Eye Other extinct species of mastodon are found in Europe. More Science From an Easy Chair I’d have been no more surprised to see a mastodon really walking around out here. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri In these gravels are entombed scattered bones of the mastodon and other extinct mammals, but it was long before there appeared any relic of a human frame concerning which there could be no misapprehension. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 The mastodon was a giant elephant of a still earlier period than the mammoth. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Its absence, however, in the flesh, despite the lapse of time—for it went off long ago when the mastodon still wandered on the pleasant upland—its continued absence vexes the learned. Chimney-Pot Papers When the lower jaw shortened in the later mastodons and elephants the trunk did not shorten too, but remained free and depending, capable of large movement and of grasping with its extremity. More Science From an Easy Chair Of course, you know that President Jefferson wrote Lewis not to be surprised if he did see the mastodon still living in this unknown country. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri It is worthy of notice that these fossils are found in a zone which enjoys the tropical climate supposed to have prevailed at the period of the mastodons. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science I’d call that the track of an elephant or a mastodon or something. The Young Alaskans The Wilderness Trail broken first by mastodon, then panther and bear and frightened deer, has been transformed into a modern highway. Blue Ridge Country You know how you are always running up against mastodons in the big town. At Good Old Siwash They didn’t know a thing about this new world we’d just bought of Napoleon, mastodons, mules, and all. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri The fossil elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, and the mastodons are not found in the more ancient layers. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The name of the man who had dug up the tooth of the mastodon was Louis Bloche. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life The bones of mastodon and mammoth remained to attest their supremacy over an uninhabited land thousands upon thousands of years ago. Blue Ridge Country |
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