1. mastodon - Noun
2. Mastodon - Proper noun
An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.
Source: Webster's dictionary"Mastodons were much more at home in these warmer, wooded wetland habitats with an abundance of shrubs and trees like spruce and pine for them to eat," Karpinski told a panel discussion involving about a dozen mastodon experts. Source: Internet
One of the headliners of the first night of the Adult Swim Festival was Georgia's own Mastodon. Source: Internet
Asphalt, impermeable gunk that impregnates hollow bones, preserves fossils such as these dire wolf and saber-tooth cat skulls, and mastodon pelvis recreated from the original specimens. Source: Internet
Supposing it might have been a bone, the family called in a paleontologist John Zawiskie at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills who later authenticated the bone as a vertebrae from a mastodon some 13,000 years old. Source: Internet
Native artifacts and prehistoric skeletal remains are wonderfully displayed and include a full-size mastodon recently discovered in nearby Wakulla Springs. Source: Internet
Each tracks a species that’s in some way emblematic—the American mastodon, the great auk, an ammonite that disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous alongside the dinosaurs. Source: Internet