ゾウのような、マンモスのような、大型の哺乳類「マストドン」。1万年ほど前に絶滅していますが、古代のゾウとされるマストドンのあごと歯の化石が、米国の民家の裏庭で見つかりました。

マストドンは、象やマンモスと同じゾウ類に属するがより古く、4000万年前から1万1000年前に世界の大陸に生息していた 森林地帯を中心に草食生活 ...

An excavation which was helped by the State University of New York, found a well-preserved jaw of an adult mastodon, a piece of a toe bone and part of a rib. People at the museum said it was the first ...

The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, asked experts to arrive to help unearth even more teeth. They discovered the bones were part of a mastodon, a colossal cousin of the mammoth that roamed the ...

They are cousins to the modern elephant and the also extinct woolly mammoth ... University of New York System work to excavate mastodon teeth and a jaw. (New York State Museum and State ...

What he saw inside — two yellowed teeth from a long-dead mastodon ... There they found the jaw of an adult mastodon — a cousin to the woolly mammoth, which roamed North America until ...

well-preserved adult jaw and fragments of rib and toe bones that once belonged to a mastodon — ancient giants that existed during the Ice Age and became extinct some 10,000 years ago. The term refers ...

It’s a gigantic find. An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant ...