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
“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.
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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