Today, elephants are the tusks is free if you thinking long teeth come to mind. In ancient times member of the family used a Mastodon, real Mastodon, but unlike the mammoth had also long teeth. Two well-preserved canines, Mane, seen above are among the recently found parts a Mastodon unearthed in North Greece.
Measurement of 16.4 feet (5 meters) and 15 feet (4.6 meters), remains the apples "are the longest tusks ever in the world to be discovered."
Some of the animal leg have also discovered bones and parts of a pine tree with molar wurde.Auf of based of partial skeleton, the researchers believe that the animal stand high 11.5 feet (3.5 M) at the shoulder and weighed about six tons.
Evangelia Tsoukala of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was the team leader for the Forschung.Das team believes that the Mastodon was probably between 25 and 30 years died.
The tusks of teeth were probably used to break the branches and twigs although you; provided some evidence, the men challenges in matingOne tusk is often shorter than the other, suggesting that, like people, mastodons laterality have had,
Mastodons were browsers, especially food, branches and Mammoth HOUSEWIVE mostly feeding on grass.The meat from mastodons was, a food source for early humans.Archaeologists are still trying to determine what role, if any, the early human settlers of North America in the extinction of the Mastodon played.
Check out the Mastodon museums can be a pleasant journey for families! exhibits you see below:
American Museum of Natural History, pink Palace Museum (Memphis, Tennessee), Mastodon State historic site (Kimmswick, Missouori) Museum (Baltimore, Maryland), Dayton Museum of natural history (Dayton, Ohio), Museum of Arts and Sciences (Rochester, New York), Houston Museum of natural sciences (Houston, Texas), Grand Rapids Public Museum (Grand Rapids, Michigan), Canadian Museum of nature (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada),
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