mastodon
Ice Age giant
A mastodon is an extinct elephant-like mammal that roamed North America during the ice age, distinguished from mammoths by its shorter legs, longer body, and cone-shaped teeth adapted for browsing rather than grazing.
The word sometimes appears figuratively for anything massive and prehistoric-seeming: a mastodon of a machine. (Capitalized Mastodon is the social media platform.)
Ancient glacial geological period
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- ice sheetThick glacial landmass covering
- woollyCovered in soft fibers
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
permafrost · Holocene · glacial · interglacial · steppe · Beringia · paleoclimate · Clovis
Preserved ancient organism
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- tuskExtended external tooth
- molarRear crushing tooth
- excavationAct of unearthing
specimen · Miocene · La Brea · sediment · reconstruction · extinction · bone · dig
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- bygoneOf earlier times
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ancientVery old indeed
disappeared · perished · relic · dodo · saber-toothed cat · dire wolf
Pleistocene
Ancient glacial geological period
megafauna · permafrost · Holocene · glacial · interglacial · steppe · Beringia · paleoclimate · Clovis · quaternary
fossil
Preserved ancient organism
excavation · specimen · Miocene · La Brea · sediment · reconstruction · extinction · bone · dig · stratigraphy
vanished
Disappeared from sight
- lostUnable to navigate
- bygoneOf earlier times
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
ancient · disappeared · perished · relic · dodo · saber-toothed cat · dire wolf
tusks
Extended animal incisors
quadruped · bristled · massive · elephantine · pachyderm · browsing · stocky · shaggy
colossal
Extremely large in scale
behemoth · gigantic · immense · huge · gargantuan · hulking · formidable · imposing · lumbering
- Mammutidae
- Ice Ageice age, mammoths, saber-tooth cat, Pleistocene, ice ages
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- Beastsbeast, monster, predator, bull, elephant
- Extinct Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus, dodo, triceratops
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils