Researchers hope that these examinations will provide a more complete picture of the creature’s age, diet, and habitat ... of modern elephants, the American mastodon roamed North America ...

and habitat during its lifetime. Mastodons, which were distant cousins of mammoths and modern-day elephants, went extinct ...

The American mastodon was a large land mammal that roamed North ... but it took years for the nineteenth-century scientific community to establish the facts of mastodon anatomy. In the early ...