Gallery: Exhibit Review: Mammoths and Mastodons

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    A miniature diorama of human hunters butchering an American mastodon.
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    A close-up of the right ear of Lyuba, showing a few of the hairs still attached to her body.
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    A straight-line progression of proboscidean evolution, which stands in stark contrast to the actual branching pattern of this group’s evolutionary history.
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    A restoration of the sabercat Homotherium, which preyed upon mammoths and other large Pleistocene mammals.
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    The lower jaw of an old mammoth. Notice how the teeth are extremely worn down and are surrounded by spongy bone.
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    A restoration of a Columbian mammoth.
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    A restoration of a Pleistocene mammal.
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    A restoration of the “short-faced” bear Arctodus.
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