Mastodons fed on trees and shrubs in both the boreal and tropical rain forests of the New World while giant ground sloths and glyptodonts fed in Mexican deserts. |
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Also this period saw the appearance of the mastodons, raccoons, and weasels. |
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From mammoths and mastodons the Clovis foragers would have learned much about edible wild plants. |
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These extinctions included animals such as mammoths and mastodons, the saber-toothed cat, ground sloths and native American horses and camels. |
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Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber-toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits. |
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In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went. |
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Scientists tell us that around 14,000 years ago North America was the home of large populations of mammoths and mastodons. |
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I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed over eons. |
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Clues from bones tell a remarkable story of an Ice Age drought, where mastodons undertook huge migrations just to survive the seasons. |
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In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands. |
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Paleo-Indians used Folsom points to kill mammoths, mastodons, long horned bison, giant sloths and other now-extinct animals that once roamed Colorado. |
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All too often books written for a popular audience include animals such as mammoths, mastodons, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and the sail-backed Dimetrodon. |
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All the fascinating stories about the bones of dinosaurs, chalicotheres, dinotheres, mastodons, giant giraffes, and mammoths are gathered in my book. |
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We learned the difference between mastodons and mammoths and admired their sturdy columnar legs, but given our languor, we resembled nothing so much as the giant sloth. |
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Turn back the hands of time 20,000 years, and these two biologists might be spotlighting saber-toothed cats, mastodons, mammoths, and 18-foot-tall sloths. |
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The family tree of elephants, mammoths, and mastodons can be traced back 55,000,000 years to when the proboscidean order originated in Africa. |
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In North America, the big animals all vanished, including mastodons, camels, giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats. |
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Big cats such as the American cheetah and American lion once roamed the plains, as did mammoths, mastodons, wild horses and the first camels. |
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