#mastodons

[geopsych]

From last October. The pods were still hanging on the honey locust tree because the large Ice Age mammals that used to eat them and spread the seeds just never come around anymore. I read but haven’t tested it that the stuff inside the pods around the seeds is sweeter than honey (not recommended b/c I don’t know if it’s toxic). Somebody back in the Pleistocene had a sweet tooth and it seems to be mastodons. Remnants of these pods have been found in their manure. And the huge thorns and spines at a certain height on the trees? They were to discourage mastodons from pushing the whole tree over to get the pods just out of reach! Now you know.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 61: Middle Ages and Much Earlier

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for research or fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a babel fish in your ear to translate).

Mastodon Migration

Triceratops Mating

A year with Dimetrodons

Saber-toothed Cat evolution and behavior

The fate of the Grunwald Swords

The last month of Chinggis Khan/Genghis Khan/Temüjin and funeral rites.

Athena Parthenos when it was new.

Canaanite Religious Traditions

Denisovan Folklore

The Ghana Empire (Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadu) circa 800 CE

Sosso Kingdom circa 1200 CE

The Mali Empire circa 1300 CE

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[the-forest-library]

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much

“There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveries suggest that “humans were existing alongside these animals for at least 10,000 years, without making them go extinct.”

[antiqueanimals]

Mastodon Americanus by Charles R. Knight. 1907. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 25, No. 2. November/December 1986.

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[uwlmvac]

Mammoths and mastodons are both extinct ice-age megafauna, distantly related to today's elephants. The mammoth eats grass, and its teeth are flat to allow crushing the vegetation. The mastodon has a series of high bumps on the teeth to allow it to eat browse such as twigs. Mammoth remains are found predominantly on the plains, and mastodon predominantly in the eastern woodlands. However, the La Crosse area has remains of both species, suggesting that the vegetation here at the end of the ice age was a mosaic of both grassland and woodland that could support both species. 

Photo: Single tooth from: Left-mammoth, right-mastodon. The mammoth tooth is fragile and some of the tooth is broken, exposing the deep tooth enamel. Mammoth lose their teeth as they are worn down, and new ones emerge to replace them.

For more information about mammoths and mastodons visit MVAC’s video at: https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/educators/archaeology-terms/?letter=m&term=164813

[lindahall]

Albert C. Koch – Scientist of the Daay

Albert C. Koch, a German/American naturalist, showman, and entrepreneur, was born May 10, 1804, near Leipzig, Germany.  

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[noodleypie]

[dbaydenny]

Mastodons wander

the ancient land forsaken

by the march of time.

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D W Eldred