Shown is a butchered mastodon tusk from the Page-Ladson site in Florida. The curvature is typical of an upper tusk from the left side of the animal. [DC Fisher, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology]
Shown is a butchered mastodon tusk from the Page-Ladson site in Florida. The curvature is typical of an upper tusk from the left side of the animal. [DC Fisher, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology]
Mammoths and mastodons were not the same animal, but they article seems to use the words interchangably.
my dog would have loved gnawing on that for hours...
Who were the hunters - American Indians, who crossed the “land bridge” from Siberia to Alaska...or someone else?
“Dire Wolf” is an actual scientific name? And here I thought it was something made up by Game Of Thrones.
“The primary driver of extinction was likely climate and environmental changes that occurred at the end of the last ice age.”
How could there have been climate change when they hadn’t invented cars yet? /s
My Carolina Dog boy that has stare when he’s focused on a squirrel.
For a moment, I see the hunting dog early native Americans brought with them to make it here.
Yup, I have 14,000 years of American prehistory living with me.
My 2 Brittanys would point a mastodon. Heck Scooter points at the glare from his neck ID on the wall. they bred in simple mindedness for everything BUT pointing into these dogs.
Sweet dogs though.
No?
Hunting Mastodon with a sharpened stick goes down in my book as a incredible ballsy thing to do. No question about it. Real cojones required.
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