mastodon
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“It’s the most complete mastodon molar from our area, and the most spectacular mastodon molar that I’ve ever seen,” Wayne Thompson, a paleontologist and owner of the firm Pacific Paleontology, said in the news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
These were not mastodon and mammoth hunters—both species were already extinct.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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