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

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.

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