How To Use Mastodon In A Sentence
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Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
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All the fascinating stories about the bones of dinosaurs, chalicotheres, dinotheres, mastodons, giant giraffes, and mammoths are gathered in my book.
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The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
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Yet a number of the large animal species found at La Brea are no longer found in North America: native horses, camels, mammoths and mastodons, longhorned bison, and sabre-toothed cats.
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In 1899 the Witmark brothers published The First Minstrel Encyclopaedia and The First Minstrel Catalogue, which “covered every want of the amateur quite as well as the mastodonic Sears, Roebuck catalogue covers the needs of its vast patronage.”
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Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies.
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- or, like the mastodon 's huge tusks: a heavy, useless and ultimately self-destructive burden?
THE DICE MAN
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Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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It appears that he slew also a notable dun cow, of a kind of mastodon breed, which prevailed in those early days, which was making great havoc in the neighborhood.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
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Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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The woolly rhinos and cave bears of Europe and Asia, the saber-toothed cats, the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America - could some of these have made it through too?
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The mastodon was a giant elephant of a still earlier period than the mammoth.
Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
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Instead of a lower jaw a foot long, as in an elephant or in the common kind of mastodon -- this long-jawed kind had a lower jaw 5 feet or 6 feet long!
More Science From an Easy Chair
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If they existed anywhere (which is concessively possible), with the necessary environment (also concessively possible), then the mastodon could no more help wallowing out of his essential plasma than the earth can help responding to its axial motion.
Life: Its True Genesis
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And what this ingenious man did was section the trunks of mastodonts and mammoths and read their life history.
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Before Man came herds of wisent and mastodon kept the land mostly clear, and herds of white tail roamed.
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Most of the mastodon material was recovered from a small area, and one humerus and an ulna were articulated.
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From mammoths and mastodons the Clovis foragers would have learned much about edible wild plants.
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The trip takes an unexpected turn when the craft they are rowing begins a voyage back through time where the young heroes encounter mastodons, dinosaurs and eventually the starting point of life on earth.
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We learned the difference between mastodons and mammoths and admired their sturdy columnar legs, but given our languor, we resembled nothing so much as the giant sloth.
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The project marks the first time researchers have spelled out the DNA of an extinct species, and it raised the possibility that other ancient animals such as mastodons and sabertooth tigers might someday walk the Earth again.
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And if this be true, and the materialists will not deny but rather affirm it, then the inter-uterine conditions of matter, in the case of all animals (the mastodon included), as well as the inter-cellular conditions in the case of all plant-life, must have existed, with their necessary environments, somewhere and at some time, in the all-hutched laboratory of nature.
Life: Its True Genesis
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‘But as scientists, paleontologists, we are all aware that a mammoth or mastodon being extinct is not the same as a living form,’ he said.
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Scientists tell us that around 14,000 years ago North America was the home of large populations of mammoths and mastodons.
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The mastodon was a contemporary of saber-toothed cats.
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Feranec believes that the Warren Mastodon tusk, which is 8 feet, 8 inches long, is the longest one uncovered to date.
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I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed (and will re-freeze and re-thaw) over eons.
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Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the
Ulysses
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In the comments he compares the pleasure he gets from working his will on a recalcitrant domestic appliance to the triumph a caveman felt when slaying a mastodon.
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Other than the light from the long rectangular lamp that bathed his desk in yellow, beyond was shadow and then beyond it blackness, and far into the main hall near the skeletons of the mastodons was a ceiling light, but it shone more like a beacon than a source of illumination.
The Quest
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They were succeeded by mastodons, lumbering giants with bigger brains and huge tusks but not much in the way of IQ.
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Or wander further afield, over Sospel to Breil by the old path -- note the lavender: they make a passable perfume of it -- or else to Moulinet (famous for bad food and a mastodontic breed of mosquitoes) and thence along the stream -- note the bushes of wild box -- and over a wooded ridge to the breezy heights of Peira Cava, there to dream away the daylight under the pines.
Alone
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The Allante was introduced in 1987 as a two-seat sports coupe, compact by Cadillac standards: at 178.7 inches (almost 15 feet), the new model is exactly as long as the Chevrolet Corvette and nearly 4 feet shorter than the mastodonic Cadillac Brougham.
A Cadillac With Smarts
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All too often books written for a popular audience include animals such as mammoths, mastodons, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and the sail-backed Dimetrodon.
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Also this period saw the appearance of the mastodons, raccoons, and weasels.
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The great mammals of the Pliocene age, again, such as the deinotherium and the mastodon, were also, in their way, very big things in livestock; but they scarcely exceeded the modern elephant, and by no means came near the modern whales.
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Ever. I slip my hands through the holes and into gloves, and pick up the biggest rock I see, a perfect 5-carat octahedral crystal three times older than the human species, formed during the age of the mastodons.
Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake
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Now it is a dumb, stupid mastodon of a thing, crawling off to Bal Harbour to die.
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Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hindlegs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm.
Conan The Warrior
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Gathering himself at the start of his run-in with three walking steps, he would approach the wicket with nine mastodontic strides.
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It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants, -- its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths, -- cumbered the soil.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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By 11,000 years ago there were chipped fragments of stone and bone as humans hunted mammoths, mastodons and bison.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
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She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.”
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Burgruine," while their husbands perspire over mastodontic beer-jugs.
Old Calabria
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The waters were haunted by huge pachyderms, such as the dinotherium and hippopotamus; while the rhinoceros and mastodon roamed through the woodlands.
Geographical Evolution
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Thirty years later I can still hear the mastodons calling to one another, their cries muted behind the cacophony of mortgage repayments, phone bills, children's shoes and poll tax demands.
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Mastodon arvernensis, a large proboscidian, characteristic of the
The Antiquity of Man
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These extinctions included animals such as mammoths and mastodons, the saber-toothed cat, ground sloths and native American horses and camels.
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In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands.
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Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium, and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the hugest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number *** ‘Grand, indeed,’ says an
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The researchers compared sequences of DNA from the nuclei of African and Asian elephants, and from woolly mammoths and the American mastodon.
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Martin, in quoting this, notes that the last “entire earth” of the sort Thoreau had in mind had disappeared from the North American continent some 13,000 years earlier, with the disappearance of native species such as mastodons and giant sloths.
The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson
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Clues from bones tell a remarkable story of an Ice Age drought, where mastodons (relatives of the mammoths) undertook huge migrations just to survive the seasons.
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To these succeed transported soils (_alluvium_), containing the gigantic bones of ancient mammalia, such as the mastodons, the dinotherium, and the megatheroid animals, among which is the mylodon of Owen, an animal upwards of eleven feet in length, allied to the sloth.
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The scent attracted a herd of corporate mastodons – Apple, Microsoft, RIM, EMC, Ericsson and Sony – which eventually won the auction with a $4.5bn joint bid.
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Concerning this jaw, Cope remarked that it was a trilophodont mastodont with a short downturned symphysis but did not figure it.
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Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
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We meet in this period animals of the elephant kind, two species, the mastodon and deinotherium.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
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You wouldn't have us call a mastodon like that Fanny, would you, or Tatters?
A House-Boat on the Styx
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I have bearded and bitten the frozen seas, and, aforetime of that, ere ever the ice-ages came to be, I have dripped my shoulders in reindeer gore, slain the mastodon and the sabre-tooth, scratched the record of my prowess on the walls of deep-buried caves -- ay, and suckled she-wolves side by side with my brother-cubs, the scars of whose fangs are now upon me.
CHAPTER XXXIV
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The mastodon was a relatively squat creature, standing certainly four feet shorter than the imperial elephant, with comparatively small and slightly curved tusks and a flatter head.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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Discussing even a mastodont fantasy series won’t last forever, though, so I started reading the off topic posts.
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In the comments he compares the pleasure he gets from working his will on a recalcitrant domestic appliance to the triumph a caveman felt when slaying a mastodon.
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Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom
Ulysses
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As I await the return of my mastodontic Bava book from the printer, certain interesting tid-bits of information not privvy to me, or unnoticed by me as I was preparing its 1100+ pages, are beginning to come to light.
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The fossils they found included mastodons - early relatives of the elephant - primitive horses, rhino and even early camels, as well as crocodiles, giant armadillos, turtles and ground sloths long since extinct.
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We have known for a long while that early man hunted big game such as mastodons, now prehistoric bone findings show that early man also hunted and cooked game fowl.
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She says they were only made for scenery - like the rhinoceros and the mastodon.
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Barney : Hi that's not a mastodon, its Fred singing.
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During the Pleistocene Epoch, which ended about 11,000 years ago, this scavenger dined on the carcasses of mastodons, giant sloths, primitive horses, and other megafauna of the time.
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Workers started by removing the front and hind legs from the mastodon, which is supported by a steel bracket.
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During the Pleistocene Epoch, which ended about 11,000 years ago, this scavenger dined on the carcasses of mastodons, giant sloths, primitive horses, and other megafauna of the time.
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In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went.
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It is indeed perhaps more likely that the ancient inhabitants of the Upper Mississippi Valley were autoptically acquainted with the mastodon than with either of the above-named animals, owing to their southern habitat.
Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166
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Suddenly and with appalling quickness, the mastodonic brute reared up on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in a furious effort to reach this vociferous pygmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its ancient realm.
Conan The Warrior
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In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went.
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Pretty much everywhere you look, you find evidence of big critters roaming the earth - mastodons, mammoths, big camels, and my favorite, beavers the size of black bears.
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- or, like the mastodon 's huge tusks: a heavy, useless and ultimately self-destructive burden?
THE DICE MAN
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In North America these included mammoths and mastodon, giant ground sloths, and glyptodonts.
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What killed the saber-toothed tiger, the mastodon and the mammoth, formidable animals that were on top of the food chain in North America 20,000 years ago?
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- or, like the mastodon 's huge tusks: a heavy, useless and ultimately self-destructive burden?
THE DICE MAN
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This shows that its author believed in the possibility of the "superior organic forms," like the mastodon, megatherium, etc. from the "heterogenetic elements" -- those undergoing every conceivable change -- as well as the "inferior forms.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Prehistoric elephants - not just the woolly mammoths of Siberia, but others, such as American mastodons - were a common sight across the northern half of the globe.
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The valley is wet, the high benches are pocked with pothole lakes, springs, and ponds, and mastodons browse along a braided watercourse snaking across the bottomland at the foot of the cliff.
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Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
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From mammoths and mastodons the Clovis foragers would have learned much about edible wild plants.
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Matabililand and the meaning of terminal moraine, oxbow lakes and wave-cut platforms, I was actually staring out of the window and listening to the mastodons calling to one another across the prehistoric landscape.
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The equid and mammoth remains came from the upper unit and the mastodon and edentate material came from the middle unit.
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But how about the preëxisting germs or vital units of the mastodon, the megatherium, and other gigantic mammiferous quadrupeds of the Eocene period?
Life: Its True Genesis
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Manny - otherwise known as the mastodon voiced by Ray Romano - is trying to start a family.
Undefined
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The team found several species of archaic proboscideans called Palaeomastodons previously known from 32-million-year-old coastal sediments in Fayum, Egypt.
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A mastodon is a much older species, a third cousin once removed.
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They certainly do not represent the heads of mastodons, but we are not ready to say that the peccary is the prototype of these carvings, although the similarity between the glyphs (Pl. 33, figs. 7, 8) and the masks is worthy of note.
Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
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Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
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A proboscidian came next with four short tusks, and in the Miocene there followed a Mastodon (Fig. 346) armed with two pairs of long, straight tusks on which rested a flexible proboscis.
The Elements of Geology
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Mammoth and mastodon teeth have been dredged from 40 sites along the continental shelf off the eastern US in water up to 120 m deep.
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A mastodon is the more amazing animal too, isn't it?
More fisheying the Museum of Natural History.
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The equid and mammoth remains came from the upper unit and the mastodon and edentate material came from the middle unit.
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But Cuvier, since then, has fully proved that these so-termed bones of giants were in reality fossil remains of mammoths, megatheriums, mastodons, and similar extinct brutes; and that the giant's teeth’ found in many museums, had once graced the jaw-bones of spermaceti whales.
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Anyway, Mula had a dilemma because her boyfriend Kwang-Li was at a nearby café enjoying a fresh mug of bubble tea with mastodon jelly.
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- Raziskave trga sicer kažejo, da devetletni mastodont še sporadično miga na nekaterih računalnikih, a to ni zaustavilo njegova pogreba.
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Her cuadrilla warned Suki that a mastodon would be brought to her in this ruined city.
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