The tooth was identified by Thompson as belonging to a Pacific mastodon, an elephant-like mammal that existed between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age.

Mastodon, with its cute elephant icon, has shot up the charts on iOS and Android as an influx of new users decides if toots can really replace tweets. By Tom Acres, technology reporter ...

With Twitter in disarray since the world's richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralized, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users.

Mastodon DNA cleans up elephant lineage A clearer picture of the Proboscideans, which include modern elephants, is … ...

The researchers compared sequences of DNA from the nuclei of African and Asian elephants, and from woolly mammoths and the American mastodon. All are members of the Proboscidea order of mammals.

Letter Published: 22 March 1888 Were the Elephant and Mastodon contemporary in Europe? H. P. MALET Nature 37, 488 (1888) Cite this article ...