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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The mystery of the mammoth bones The mystery of the mammoth bones James Giblin Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "ma… OL15964782W
Mastodon mystery Mastodon mystery Taylor Morrison Describes the efforts of the artist and paleontologist Charles Willson Peale to excavate and display the bones of a prehistoric creature now known as the mastodon. OL17870928W
The call of distant mammoths The call of distant mammoths Peter Douglas Ward Discusses the impact of humans on the extinction of animals, focusing particulary on mammoths in the Ice Age, but also including mass extinctions throughout history, such as marsupial lions and giant… OL1876772W
Mammoths, mastodons and man Mammoths, mastodons and man Robert Silverberg Describes how scientists pieced together information from fossil remains of mammoths and mastodons to trace the evolutionary processes of prehistoric man and animal. OL1960542W
American mastodon American mastodon Michael P. Goecke Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants. OL5958800W