Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

Researchers are still working to determine if the mastodon died at the hands ... sticking out of Mississippi streambed American mastodons (Mammut americanum) were large, now-extinct mammals ...

The mastodon bones in question came from a male Mammut americanum type of mastodon. THis creature, endemic to North America, would have grazed along North America's vast landscapes until around ...