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
They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
“There are answers out there,” said Joshua Miller, a University of Cincinnati paleoecologist who was not involved in the new study but who has cut open a mastodon tusk in Indiana.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
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
“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.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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