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mastodon

[mas-tuh-don] / ˈmæs təˌdɒn /
NOUN
elephant
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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




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