Word: mastodon
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...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across...
...Harvard Dental School Museum has just received the largest tooth in the world, measuring 11 feet, two inches in length, and weighing well over 300 pounds. This tooth is over 50,000 years old, and was formerly a part of the anatomy of a mastodon...
Heretofore the largest mastodon tusk was in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, a specimen measuring nine feet. The Harvard specimen is over two feet longer than the Carnegie specimen, and scientists have estimated that, during the 50,000 years it lay in the earth, corrosion has reduced its size at least two feet, making its former length well over 13 feet...
...Have ninety cases fossils. Two skulls, many bones, skeleton of gigantic new mammal, possibly larger than Baluchitherium. Humerus big as man's body. Huge titanothere, extraordinary saddle-like skull. New mastodon, spatulate jaw, lower incisors eighteen inches wide...