Science

Mastodon resource containing a growing number of journal articles and links. Also features photographic inventory and journal of Calvin College's current mastodon excavation in Grand Rapids, MI.

Mammoth and mastodon exhibit.

Two articles questioning accepted views on whether preserved mammoth remains indicate the occurrence of a great catastrophe and whether mammoths were well adapted for living in cold climates.

Provides information on these extinct members of the Proboscidea, three species of which lived on the mainland of the United States at the end of the last Ice Age.

The American mastodon, Mammut Americanum, became extinct about 11,000 years ago. This illustrated article shows exhibits at the Illinois State Museum.

Provides information on the mastodon fossils found in Missouri in what is now known as the Kimmswick Bone Bed, one of the most extensive Pleistocene deposits in the USA.