Turner delivered his talk after Cuvier underscored the fact of extinction, and talks about the mastodon in the past ... from the chapter "Behemoth" in my book Written in Stone.] ...

The cause of the mastodon's extinction has long been debated. Adrian says, 'We know that around 13,000 years ago the global climate cooled, and in the area where the mastodons were living, they would ...

Bone is the right word: This bone belonged to a mastodon, and mastodons are still ... of years in its rearview and mere millennia until extinction. He had lived the kind of boisterous, peripatetic ...

The mastodon was a huge mammal similar to mammoths and elephants which lived across North America from about 3.5 million years ago until only 10,500 years ago. Their extinction is believed to have ...

The 13,600-year-old fossil remnants belong to a mastodon (Mammut sp.), a long-extinct, distant relative of today's elephants. "This is the first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull ...

The 13,600-year-old fossil remnants belong to a mastodon (Mammut sp.), a long-extinct, distant relative of today's elephants. "This is the first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull) that ...