(image source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208044119)
Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Lawrence Mack discuss Mammut, also known as the American mastodon because this is one of those creatures that has a generic name as well as a scientific name, like why we called lions lions instead of P. leo like we do T. rex. From the Late Pliocene, this 10-foot-tall mammutid isn’t really closely related to mammoths but gets confused with them a bunch, which makes sense as they look really similar and are both elephant-ish. Yeah, elephant-ish. I’m a scientist.
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