getmisch<p>I found this post about mastodon on Mastodon(!) Mastodon were cousins to elephants & wooly mammouth, and lived among hoo-mans 13K years ago (relatively recently). NY state is home to 150 mastodon fossil discoveries, w/ 1/3 in Orange County, where these teeth etc were found. <br><a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/teeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teeth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/toe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toe</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/rib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rib</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/bones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bones</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/archeologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archeologist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/says" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>says</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/fantastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantastic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discovery</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/biggest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biggest</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/tooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tooth</span></a> he's <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/seen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seen</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/person" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>person</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/wooly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wooly</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/mammouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammouth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/elephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elephant</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/cousin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cousin</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/orange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orange</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/county" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>county</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/mascot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mascot</span></a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/mastodon-teeth-ny-1.7416491" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/masto</span><span class="invisible">don-teeth-ny-1.7416491</span></a></p>