Word: mastodon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed. Father and son shoot some grouse and a small mastodon, as the father recalls later, hook a 250-lb. fresh-water marlin, and reject as unworthy of their time and skill a unicorn whose horn is not made of gold...
...amateur diggers, led by Ferguson and Anthropologist Ronald Spores of Vanderbilt University, found the bulk of the remaining pieces of the tiger's skeleton as well as more fossils, including the bones of several other extinct creatures apparently killed and dragged into the cavern by the tiger: a mastodon, an ancient horse, a long-nosed piglike creature called a peccary and a prehistoric bison. In addition, they discovered four relatively recent human remains-probably Indians of the Woodland Period (1000 B.C.-1500 A.D.). Distinguished by the artificial slope of their foreheads, a cosmetic effect achieved by the binding...