Pacific Incognitum - The Pacific Mastodon Story This is the 3rd in our monthly series of posts celebrating Western Science Center's 20th anniversary. It was supposed to just be an exhibit upgrade. Last month I talked about the discovery of Max th...

It was truly a privilege to be a part of the "discovery" of a second species of Ice Age mastodon in North America. Here, my friend and colleague Alton Dooley lays out the backstory of how we found this new species right under our noses. (Pertinent publications linked in the post!) #mastodons 🧪

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The Discovery of Max This is the 2nd in our monthly series of posts celebrating Western Science Center's 20th anniversary. By 1995 the multiyear Diamond Valley Lake construction project was well underway. Huge amounts of...

"When I came to WSC in 2014, one of the 1st challenges I needed to address was to figure out what our identity was as a museum...To me the obvious answer was our #mastodons..." - Dr. Alton Dooley, Jr.

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An illustrated image of a mastodon walking in a woodland landscape. The shape resembles an oversized elephant, with a long tail, two long tusks, and a body fully covered in short brown fur. Text: Mastodon. Navy circle. Extinct Species at Risk. Mastodons lived as browsers, in Nova Scotia for more than 70,000 years, with teeth suited for feeding on branches, twigs, leaves, and wetland plants. Mastodons migrated when necessary to avoid growing ice sheets and preferring warmer climates. #NSWildifeSpotlight #SpeciesAtRisk #Mastodon. Logo: Museum of Natural History a part of the NSM.

#Mastodons were browsers, like moose today, feeding on branches, twigs, leaves, and wetland plants. Nova Scotia’s landscape was rich in mixed conifer forests supplying a perfect food supply.
#NSWildifeSpotlight #SpeciesAtRisk

Title page: Nova Scotia Wildlife Spotlight. Species at Risk. Five coloured circles from left to right: Yellow is for endangered, orange is for threatened, pink is for vulnerable, violet is for extirpated, navy blue is for extinct. Image of the sky looking through trees from below. A weekly post spotlighting a different species currently at risk in Nova Scotia. #NSWildlifeSpotlight. Logo: Museum of Natural History a part of the NSM.

#Mastodons are EXTINCT. Mastodons lived in Nova Scotia for more than 70,000 years, migrating, when necessary, in relation to the expansion and decline of massive ice sheets. Mastodons disappeared from Nova Scotia about 11,000 years ago as part of a mass extinction caused by climate change.

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Ancient DNA Reveals Complex Mastodon Evolution and Climate Migrations

Ancient DNA reveals mastodons had three climate‑driven migration waves on the east coast and a distinct Pacific genetic branch spanning from the Northwest to Mexico and Alberta. getnews.me/ancient-dna-reveals-comp... #mastodons #genetics

Making Trump sound exactly like #MASTODONS, a super cringy cartoon from the 80s or so that they roasted on @redlettermedia.com that one time, only there it was big, strong, buff, strapping, super butch MASTODONS:

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Dr Katy Smith researching mastodon fossils - a tusk and a limb encased in plaster - on a table at the Western Science Center. Also on the table: an open notebook and pen, calipers, and phone.

Dr Greg Smith and Dr Grant Zazula researching mastodon molars (two of which are on a desk in front of Dr Zazula); Dr Smith holds a light.

Dr Alton Dooley and Dr Brett Dooley are near Dr Smith and Dr Zazula as they work on mastodon molars.

Dr Chris Widga scanning mastodon fossils in an area that will become an exhibit on Western Science Center mastodon fossils (the exhibit displays were in the works at the time).

#FossilFriday Missing everyone at Western Science Center's #PaleoCon2025 which is going on now, so I'm posting pictures from the first conference that the WSC hosted in 2017, one that focused on #mastodons.

While America’s heroin addict Health Secretary decimates healthcare all over the globe that will result in millions of death’s, Britain steps up. Read on, there are other stories you will enjoy.

#AncientTrees #AncientArt #cats #Mastodons #SolarEnergy #CaminodelNorte #Spain #Vaccines #journalism

“Mr. President, God spared you in Butler,Pennsylvania, to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever...”
With leadership like this at home and abroad a country and the world is in deep trouble.

#Israel #Iran #war #Trump #Huckabee #baboons #energy #reading #mastodons #conservation

I recently wrote this blog post for the Royal Alberta Museum about new research on mastodons in western North America. Check it out here royalalbertamuseum.ca/blog/mastodons… #palaeontology #mastodons #pleistocene

Jas and I collaborated on a comic about Thomas Jefferson, sometimes styled as America’s first paleontologist. It has #mastodons #megalonyx #megalodons and 2 modern paleontologists, Brittney S and Katy S …. Plus cameos by #FoundingMonstersComic and #FoundingMonstersTales Here’s a very mini version!

#Mastodons and #WoollyMammoths were prehistoric #elephants with key differences. 🐘

Mastodons were stockier & had cone-shaped teeth for leaves .🍃Mammoths were taller with curved tusks and ridged teeth for grazing. ❄️

Mammoths thrived in cold, furry climates, while mastodons preferred forests. 🌲

Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico The presence of at least two contemporaneous Pleistocene mastodon taxa in North America (Mammut americanum and M. pacificus) invites re-examination of specimens at the geographic margins of each speci...

Just out! New paper in #PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social seeks to further constrain the geographic and temporal relationships of Pacific and American #mastodons - this time with mitochondrial genomic data in addition to metric and morphological fossil info. peerj.com/articles/188... 🧪

Discovery: Early humans in America coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones used as jewelry.

Discovery: Early humans in America coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons: Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years.

#EarlyHumans #GiantSloths #Mastodons #PrehistoricCoexistence #AncientAmericas #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

New research says people arrived in Americas much earlier and co-existed with giant sloths and mastodons New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

New research says people arrived in #Americas much earlier and co-existed with giant (up to 4 tons) #sloths and #mastodons | #PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

Archaeologists found this Clovis point with the fossilized remains of a mastodon at a site called Kimmswick outside St. Louis, Missouri. This site offered the first evidence from North America showing that Clovis peoples hunted mastodons. 1 Stone spear point Clovis (11,500-11,000 BC Missouri

Archaeologists found this #Clovispeople point with the fossilized remains of a mastodon at a site called #Kimmswick outside St. Louis, Missouri. This site offered the first evidence from North America showing that Clovis peoples hunted #mastodons.

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Ah interesting - so kind of similar to #mastodons way of verifying. Essentially saying "If you own a domain, you can use it to verify that it's you".

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#bluesky #rss #mastodons

Wir fühlen uns hier ziemlich einsam. Viele Bibliotheken und auch der dbv Bund sind von X zu #Mastodons gegangen. Auch wir überlegen das.