mastodons

Other than the light from the long rectangular lamp that bathed his desk in yellow, beyond was shadow and then beyond it blackness, and far into the main hall near the skeletons of the mastodons was a ceiling light, but it shone more like a beacon than a source of illumination.

The Quest Ahern, Jerry 1981

Martin, in quoting this, notes that the last “entire earth” of the sort Thoreau had in mind had disappeared from the North American continent some 13,000 years earlier, with the disappearance of native species such as mastodons and giant sloths.

The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson William Harryman 2009

We have known for a long while that early man hunted big game such as mastodons, now prehistoric bone findings show that early man also hunted and cooked game fowl.

Green Options 2009

The project marks the first time researchers have spelled out the DNA of an extinct species, and it raised the possibility that other ancient animals such as mastodons and sabertooth tigers might someday walk the Earth again.

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

They were succeeded by mastodons, lumbering giants with bigger brains and huge tusks but not much in the way of IQ.

Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me... 2011

By 11,000 years ago there were chipped fragments of stone and bone as humans hunted mammoths, mastodons and bison.

Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies Dr. Reese Halter 2010

Matabililand and the meaning of terminal moraine, oxbow lakes and wave-cut platforms, I was actually staring out of the window and listening to the mastodons calling to one another across the prehistoric landscape.

Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just 2010

Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies.

Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies Dr. Reese Halter 2010

Thirty years later I can still hear the mastodons calling to one another, their cries muted behind the cacophony of mortgage repayments, phone bills, children's shoes and poll tax demands.

Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just 2010

The scent attracted a herd of corporate mastodons – Apple, Microsoft, RIM, EMC, Ericsson and Sony – which eventually won the auction with a $4.5bn joint bid.

Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me... 2011