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Dantheman9758 β Mammoth vs Mastodon
Published: 2007-04-22 08:05:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 22723; Favourites: 83; Downloads: 0
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People always confuse them because they are both from the ice age, and they both had hair...The one on the left is a woolly mammoth, note the high humped shoulder, the tall body, downward sloping back, strongly curved tusks, tall head, and the VERY long (up to 18" strands) dark brown fur (although genetics show some were blonde as well)..
On the right is an American mastodon. Shorter at the shoulder, but longer overall, less curvature in the tusks, a longer and flatter skull, and a relatively flat back. We don't know exactly what color the hair was, or even if it had hair. Based on its habitat and the climate it lived in, it probably had a woolly coat, but not as thick as a woolly mammoths.
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And, diets are different. Β Mammoths are grazers and mastodons are browsers.
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So grazers eat grass and browsers eat other plants?
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That's right, grazers go for C4 plants or grass, whereas browsers go for C3 plants or bushes, shrubs, and trees.
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The most interesting things about mastodons and mammoths are hardly mentioned. The mammoth survived into the Holocene until about 4,000 B.C., on Wrangle Island, they say, where specimens are still found in the permafrost. This is important, because much older specimens (from ca. 40,000 B.C.) are also still found frozen in the permafrost. The mastodon was allegedly hunted to death before the end of the Pleistocene (say in the period 25,000 B.C.). Apparently, there are no frozen specimens. The deal is, a deeper theory of fossils says that the older frozen mammoths and the younger ones should be subtlety different--the bones, especially the skulls, of the older specimens will show nearly perfect symmetry, whereas the younger ones will show the asymmetry typical of everything alive today. Look at your own face in a mirror--it is asymmetrical, sometimes radically so. The same with every animal--but not with FOSSIL animals from before the Holocene. The reason has to do with the nature of the creation of the earth, which started with ideal creatures (no individuality and no souls) and ended with real creatures and real individuals. Each left βremainsβ but the remains are DIFFERENT and can be SHOWN to be different. This theory has been confirmed with specimens of anatomically modern humans.
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Mammoths in my opinion, are better than mastodons.
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Confusing...I mean, Mastodon is 10 feet tall..In your image you mentioned that too.The Woolly Mammoth also 10 feet tall.Then how in this image,Mammoth is taller than Mastodon ?
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Because they are measured by how tall their heads are. The shoulders on the Mammoth are much taller, and the extra on the head doesn't count as being the main head, I don't think. I don't know for sure though, just my guess.
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Hehehe, I was listening to Heidevolk's "Vulgaris Magistralis" this day and he rides mammoth.
But on sunday he rides a mastodon
So I guess mammoth wins?
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Blonde, huh? I've seen a picture of a reconstruction with greyish-brownish fur. Figure there should be some variation.
Also, mammoths were grazers, eating grass and low-lying plant material; mastodons were browsers, eating from trees. Mammoths were more closely related to elephants, mastodons were actually more distant.
Nice renditions. Anatomically, they're very accurate.
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