mastodon

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“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.

From Washington Times

“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.

From Seattle Times

These were the times of mastodons, camels, giant beavers, and, as Zhur documents, gray wolves.

From National Geographic

The paintings include depictions of what appear to be now-extinct animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant, and giant sloths and Ice Age horses, researchers say.

From BBC

In an age of massive mammals, mastodons were among the largest.

From Washington Post