This is my post for #freewriters Tuesday prompt wooly mammoth hosted by @mariannewest
I took this picture at The Museum of Natural History in New York City. I do not remember if it is a mastodon or a wooly mammoth. Whichever it is, it is huge.
I am not the only one that knows nothing about wooly mammoths or Mastodons. I asked google if wooly mammoths lived in Florida. https://www.google.com/search?q=Were+there+wooly+mammouths+in+florida&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS914US914&oq=Were+there+wooly+mammouths+in+florida&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i299.18376j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
This is what they said Showing results for, were there wooly mammoths in Florida
Although the Pleistocene is generally termed the Ice Age, the ice cap did not reach as far south as Florida and the woolly mammoth was never a resident of the peninsula. The remains of the Imperial and Columbian mammoths are among the most common fossil finds in Florida.
I scroll down to the questions that people ask and find this.Were there ever mammoths in Florida?
Mammoths and mastodons were abundant in Florida until about 13,000 years ago — when they became extinct.
Somewhere I have a mastodon tooth that my Uncle found in the 1960s, but of course, I can not find it to take a picture. So I took one of a bone from one, or that is what I think it is, or from something very old, it is about 8 inches long and weighs about 10 pounds.
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This is a small piece of a mastodon tusk.
The inside of it has a lot of holes or indents.
The same tusk, laying flat.
When we had fill brought in to make our driveway, there were several big bones and more pieces of tusk. The guy that was building our road put all of them in his truck but when I said something, he gave me this one.
Whether they are wooly mammoths or mastodons, it does not matter, I think it is so cool to have something that is at least 13,000 years old.
All photos are mine
