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

As the credits rolled next to the park’s mastodon sculptures, I couldn’t have agreed with Randy more.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 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

“Say, Lee, I want you to read an article. It says they’ve dug up a mastodon in Siberia. Been in the ice thousands of years. And the meat’s still good.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck