Junkyard wrote:
Cool. I'd like to have a look at that in person someday.
I can just imagine one of those critters locked in battle with about 8 or 10 fellows with spears in it's side and it stomping over a few of them or trying to gore them with it's tusks.
That stuff about the mastodons in Alaska is supposed to be pretty current. I don't know if there are still sightings today, but up to 150 years ago, people were saying they saw one or more in the deep woods up there, usually on the mountains and I believe british columbia as well.
I read an original account of the Lewis and Clark expedition by someone who was on the expedition when I was in college. I was surprised to read that they were actually looking for mammoths while trekking to the west coast since a lot of people thought they still existed in N America at that time.Indians that members of the Lewis and Clark expedition spoke to reported to them that mammoths still existed but were very rare.
