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English: Mounted male (left) and female Mammut americanum skeletons at the new (2019) University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, Michigan.The male specimen is a cast of the skeleton of the Buesching mastodon (named after its discoverer) that was excavated from a peat bog near Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is thought (based on an unhealed puncture wound on the right side of its ...
Similar to extant elephants, male American mastodon individuals tended to be larger than female individuals and tend to have larger and more strongly curved tusks, although the degree to which the body size is a factor in molar size is unclear.
Molar from mastodon A at the Coats–Hines site. The Coats–Hines–Litchy site is located east of I-65 near CoolSprings Galleria in Williamson County, Tennessee.The site was initially recorded in 1977 when several large bones were identified during landscaping at the Crockett Springs Golf Course (now the Nashville Golf and Athletic Club).
The mastodon bones are slated to become part of a new exhibit at the Prairie Trails Museum in Corydon once scientists at the University of Iowa analyze and conserve the skull and other recovered ...
A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley, marking the state's first such find in more than a decade, officials announced this week.
A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull was uncovered in an Iowa creek, state officials announced this week. Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found ...
The Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is one of three sites of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the world's first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton". [3] The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum. [2]
An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant, according to state officials.