Animals Of The Stone Age: A List Of Stone Age Animals With Pictures & Facts
Mastodon
Mastodon
Image: Sergiodlarosa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped / resized by ActiveWild.com)
Where found: The Americas
Mastodons were Stone Age relatives of today’s elephants. The five currently recognized species of mastodon belong to the genus Mammut and family Mammutidae. They were found in North America, and were less-closely related to living elephants than mammoths.
Smaller than mammoths, but powerfully-built and equipped with long tusks, mastodons were herbivores that inhabited forests.
Hunting of mastodons by stone age humans may have caused their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.
Mastodon
Image: Sergiodlarosa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped / resized by ActiveWild.com)
Where found: The Americas
Mastodons were Stone Age relatives of today’s elephants. The five currently recognized species of mastodon belong to the genus Mammut and family Mammutidae. They were found in North America, and were less-closely related to living elephants than mammoths.
Smaller than mammoths, but powerfully-built and equipped with long tusks, mastodons were herbivores that inhabited forests.
Hunting of mastodons by stone age humans may have caused their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.
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18 January 2024
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