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

Mastodons, in this case the Pacific mastodon species, were a large, tusked herbivore, whose evolutionary line diverged from that of elephants around 27 million years ago.

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