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A Mystery That Took 13,200 Years to Crack

Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that helped explain his violent death.

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Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals first evidence of one extinct animal’s annual migration

“The result that is unique to this study is that for the first time, we’ve been able to document the annual overland migration of an individual from an extinct species,” said University of Cincinnati paleoecologist Joshua Miller, the study’s first author.

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