单词：mastodons
n. extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
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Meanwhile, the ground sloth, like the mastodons, must eat most of the day to fuel its huge bulk. This may be the ice age, but by midday, temperatures soar, drawing another predator to the spring to drinkthe notorious saber-toothed cat. Most creatures
探索与发现2013年
Today, there is a group of larger visitors here, too. A herd of mastodons led by the matriarch have just returned from their annual migration hundreds of miles to the north. Now the winter drought is over and the spring water has been topped up by re
探索与发现2013年
Some of this ice age dung was found beneath the skull in the Aucilla. The dung contained plant remains that tell us what the mastodon was browsing on 13,000 years ago or morea mixture of trees and grasses. This suggests that ice age Florida was drier
探索与发现2013年
But despite their name, the mighty Everglades did not exist during the ice age. So what did pre-historic Florida look like? There is one place in northern Florida that has revealed more ice age secrets than almost anywhere else, the dark slow-moving
探索与发现2013年
It has long been thought that mammoths and mastodons rambled over North American subartic grounds between 75,000 and 10,000 years ago, and were made extinct by hungry new arrivals on the scene, human beings. But new evidence indicates mastodons proba
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