| 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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| From mammoths and mastodons the Clovis foragers would have learned much about edible wild plants. |
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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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| Also this period saw the appearance of the mastodons, raccoons, and weasels. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went. |
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| Man wiped out most of the megafauna the mammoths, the sabre-toothed tigers, the mastodons, the aurochs that roamed the planet before he did. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Mammoths, mastodons, massive ground sloths, woolly rhinoceros, cave bears and large flightless birds suddenly became extinct. |
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| Then which is the future of these mastodons if their baby trees are not preserved? |
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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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| With the Super Etendard planes of the Fleet Air Arm, these mastodons constitute the bulk of the French deterrent force. |
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| Seeing all these monstrous feet, motionless in the shadow, one could have believed oneself beneath an enormous herd of petrified mastodons. |
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| Since a good old pick-up truck is not even remotely close to a race car, being handed the keys to one of these mastodons usually means that the week will be long and boring. |
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| In motorized boats or canoes can go to meet those mastodons at certain times of the year in rivers, lagoons, ponds and lakes generated by the Mono River. |
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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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| It is in same time as the mammoths and bisons of Siberia, the camels of America, the mastodons of Alaska, the giant rhinoceroses of Europe... also disappeared, which proves that the phenomenon was total. |
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| In the debate over the cause of the extinction of large, legendary creatures like mastodons and woolly rhinoceroses, she tends to blame people rather than the end of the most recent ice age. |
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| 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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