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- n. Plural form of mastodon.
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“Other than the light from the long rectangular lamp that bathed his desk in yellow, beyond was shadow and then beyond it blackness, and far into the main hall near the skeletons of the mastodons was a ceiling light, but it shone more like a beacon than a source of illumination.”
The Quest
“Martin, in quoting this, notes that the last “entire earth” of the sort Thoreau had in mind had disappeared from the North American continent some 13,000 years earlier, with the disappearance of native species such as mastodons and giant sloths.”
“We have known for a long while that early man hunted big game such as mastodons, now prehistoric bone findings show that early man also hunted and cooked game fowl.”
“The project marks the first time researchers have spelled out the DNA of an extinct species, and it raised the possibility that other ancient animals such as mastodons and sabertooth tigers might someday walk the Earth again.”
“Matabililand and the meaning of terminal moraine, oxbow lakes and wave-cut platforms, I was actually staring out of the window and listening to the mastodons calling to one another across the prehistoric landscape.”
“Thirty years later I can still hear the mastodons calling to one another, their cries muted behind the cacophony of mortgage repayments, phone bills, children's shoes and poll tax demands.”
“The scent attracted a herd of corporate mastodons – Apple, Microsoft, RIM, EMC, Ericsson and Sony – which eventually won the auction with a $4.5bn joint bid.”
The Guardian: Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me...
“They were succeeded by mastodons, lumbering giants with bigger brains and huge tusks but not much in the way of IQ.”
The Guardian: Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me...
“By 11,000 years ago there were chipped fragments of stone and bone as humans hunted mammoths, mastodons and bison.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
“Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
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