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[252mya]

Elephants Among Us poster

A variety of giant proboscideans shared the planet with humans and other hominins during the Pleistocene and Holocene. Compare their size and discover where they lived with this very cool poster.

252mya.com/elephants

Art by Joschua Knüppe

[mindblowingscience]

These Boys Thought They'd Found a 'Big, Fat, Rotten Cow'. It Was a 1 Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon

Kids these days.

Jude Sparks was out on a family hike in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico, testing walkie-talkies, when the then-9-year-old boy tripped over a rocky protrusion.

When Jude got up again, he examined what appeared to be two large, fossilised teeth jutting out from the terrain. Farther up, he spotted what looked like a tusk, he added.

Jude was intrigued.

But Jude's brother Hunter, who had been running behind him, didn't seem too impressed with whatever Jude had found.

"Hunter said it was just a big, fat rotten cow," Jude told KVIA News, which first reported the story. "I didn't know what it was. I just knew it wasn't usual."

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[dinodorks]

Skeleton of Stegomastodon mirificus at the National Museum of Natural History.

[252mya]

A variety of giant proboscideans shared the planet with humans and other hominins during the Pleistocene and Holocene. Compare their size and discover where they lived with this very cool poster. Design by Joschua Knüppe sulc.us/elephants

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

Nine-Year-Old Accidentally Discovers a Stegomastodon Fossil in New Mexico

[netnewsnebraska]

A Look Into Nebraska's Deep Fossil History | netnebraska.org

Twenty years ago, a farmer in western Nebraska came upon the bones of a prehistoric elephant in his gravel pit. Learn how that discovery fits in to Nebraska’s rich paleontological history.

[oneheadtoanother]

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