“The mere idea of bigness stirred every heart.” Peale’s “mammoth” would turn out to be a mastodon, but “mammoth” was the word on every tongue, gaining overnight “a fresh and ...

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Mastodons and mammoths do have some similar physical features - they're both large mammals with a trunk, tusks and stocky legs and both have hairy coats,' Adrian says. 'The key difference is that the ...

The discovery in Madison County is the first giant mammoth tusk ever documented in Mississippi, in part because the animals where much rarer than mastodons, and the smaller woolly mammoths.