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Archaeologists excavate pygmy stegodon tusk on Flores; inset, stone tool from the Mata Menge site.

First Mariners 1998

The new dates also support the suggestion made by Dutch paleontologist Paul Sondaar more than a decade ago that the extinction of pygmy stegodon on Flores ca. 900,000 years ago was the result of human predation.

First Mariners 1998

Mata Menge, however, produced a small number of stone tools, including some made of nonlocal chert, as well as remains of large stegodon, crocodile, giant rat, freshwater molluscs, and plants.

First Mariners 1998

Tangi Talo yielded the remains of pygmy stegodon (a type of elephant), giant tortoise, and Komodo dragons, but no tools.

First Mariners 1998

A sample from Tangi Talo, taken near a pygmy stegodon tusk and giant tortoise shell fragments, yielded a date of about 900,000 years ago.

First Mariners 1998

Before the arrival of early humans ca. 900,000 years ago, Flores was populated by pygmy stegodon (a dwarf elephant species), Komodo dragons, and giant tortoise.

First Mariners 1998

Stone flakes and stegodon bones have been found here in presumed association in deposits located just above a reversal of the earth's magnetic field dating to 730,000 years ago.

Ancient Seafarers 1997

* There have been found in the gravel Tertiary mammals including elephas primigenius, elephas Namadicus, stegodon Clifti, and unnamed varieties of bear, deer, bison, ox, horse, rhinoceros, and whale.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Missing in action: Megafauna and seed dispersal in Asia's empty forests stegodon.

The annotated budak 2008

FoetusNail said: "The 10 ton 100 inch Hooker telescope at Mt Wilson Observatory floats on mercury. ..." stegodon said: "Dudes, whatever.

Boing Boing 2009