Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming - The New York Times

By studying chemical signatures in fossilized tusks, researchers have pieced together one of the elephant-like animal’s movements and maladies.

Things drastically changed for this mastodon from his 29th through his 32nd years. Suddenly, he was moving over great distances with signs of repeated injury. But he kept returning to northeast India… [+1624 chars]

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