Evolution depends on random mutations to slowly ch...  ...bian mammoth, straight-tusked elephants, American mastodons , and three living elephant species. What they fou...  ...things I learned from fact-checking this article: mastodons are not considered elephants. Here is the family...

When you think about prehistoric elephants, it's e...  ..., it's easy to confuse the mammoth (left) and the mastodon (right). After all, they roamed the world at the...  ...paintings). To look at them, you'd think that the mastodon would be the closer relative to modern elephants,...  ...same family (Elephantida...

An engraved bone, believed to be from a mastodon , giant sloth or mammoth, may be the oldest exampl...