“The mere idea of bigness stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on every tongue, gaining overnight “a fresh and ...

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Sundell said he and Kansas University scientists working at the site had previously assumed the bones belonged to a mastodon ... the bones were that of a mammoth that probably died when it ...

But, he said, "It didn't occur to me it could be a mammoth tusk instead of a mastodon tusk until later. When I learned it was a mammoth and not a mastodon, I got even more excited." Over the years ...

Fairbanks resident creates a world of 'crazy critters' The mastodon was the brainchild of Donald J. May, Sr., according to his daughter Debbie Tilsworth. As Tilsworth tells it, her dad and mom ...