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Recent Examples of mastodon New York State Museum Remnants of mastodons have been discovered in New York before. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024 The short-faced bear went extinct around 11,000 years, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the large mammals that lived alongside it, including all the large carnivores listed above, as well as giant ground sloths, mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers, camels, and giant armadillos. Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 These are direct descendants of hunters who chased deer — and maybe mastodons and bison — across these hills. Andrew Sharp, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2024 Read More: Pre-Clovis Projectiles Hint At Multiple Migrations Hunting Massive and Small Mammals Ancient people who used Clovis technology typically hunted massive prey, like mammoths and mastodons. Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mastodon 
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Noun
  • The Campbells have been known to just sit on a terrace with a local beer keeping a look-out for those whales while giant icebergs float past.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In recent years, large numbers of whales have washed ashore up and down the East Coast, including in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of the favorites is the playable lineages based on dinosaur families.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • For example, Joslin said an upcoming dinosaur program will be presented by MC Rose, a naturalist with a geology degree.
    Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two days after settling his latest claim against Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, the Duke of Sussex's legal team has been told that costs in his case against another media giant can only reach $5.1 million.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The warehouse giant's sales rose 7.5% in its most recent quarter versus the year-earlier period, while net income jumped 13% from a year earlier.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Set in a new location with new monsters, Wilds introduces a new type of mount, new monsters, an improved wound system, focus mode, and a new tool called the hook slinger.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • Per the reports, the mammoth is now being studied at Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, which specializes in studying mammoths and their Ice Age environment and is located at the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The mammoth is said to measure in at 4 feet tall and less than 6.6 feet long.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For the mammoth, that animal is the Asian elephant.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe most striking, however, is the case of Tip, an Asian elephant shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to a New York City zoo in the late 1880s.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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