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2) Ice age
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four animals trying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The American mastodon thundered through the Ice Age. With its powerful tusks and large size, few predators challenged this prehistoric beast. Readers learn about this mighty plant eater from engaging text and bold illustrations reviewed by Smithsonian experts."--
4) My mastodon
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 19th-century work of the Peale family, young Sybilla helps assemble a mastodon skeleton in the family's museum, then refuses to let her brother exhibit it in London. Includes historical notes.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, Nova's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the excavation, organized by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, unearths startling and controversial evidence of what...
9) Mastodon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Follows Mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, through a day in his precarious prehistoric life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Provides a description of the prehistoric mammals known as mammoths and mastodons, which are relatives of the elephant family. Discusses their physical characteristics and geographic range, what scientists believe about their daily life, and some fossil finds.
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
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 "mastodon."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This book will introduce readers to the American Mastodon and help them learn when and where the animal lived, what it looked like, how it survived, and why it went extinct. Title is complete with glossary, index, and more exciting facts! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
This collection includes a photocopy of Lloyd A. Whitehead's typewritten essay "The Mastodon Who Went to College" (circa 1970). The essay discusses the chain of events that led to the discovery of an incomplete mastodon skeleton on the Bookout Farm in Randolph County, Indiana and how it was combined with other remains found previously at New Paris, Ohio and mounted together at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1895. The mounted skeleton became...
Description
This collection includes black-and-white photographs, a postcard, and an unpublished article written by journalist Jack Cejnar from Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1930 to 1933 regarding the archaeological discovery of a 10,000-year old mastodon skeleton known as the "Richmond mastodon". The photographs depict the bones, dig site, visitors, the head paleontologist, John T. Sanford, and Donovan Harper. Cejnar originally submitted the materials to...
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