Word: mastodon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thunder on, mastodon--pay the rent...
...mounting thousands of birds, insects, snakes and animals for display. In 1801 he paid a farmer $300, a rifle and a couple of dresses for an odd heap of bones and permission to dig for more. From these, in his greatest scientific coup, he pieced together the first mastodon ever assembled...
...twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant cousin that migrated to America from Asia during the golden age of mammals, some 12 million years...
...Bones of the largest mastodon ever foudn in Siberia...
...current stereotype pictures Eliot as the den of the clubmen, practically a club in itself. Like most stereotypes, this one is inaccurate; a better composite of the Mastodon would include elements of the social, the athletic, the scholarly, the classical, and the indifferent...