mastodon
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Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
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.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
The goal was to mash as much mall merchandise as you could with Melvin, the mischievous mastodon.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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