Perry Mastodon

[Cartoonist]

https://www.wheaton.edu/community/perry-mastodon/

I was nine years old when they dig up this guy in my home town.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Was he found on Della Street?

[Cartoonist]

3. No, but he was found by the gardner

[Coventina]

9. Nice!!

[CurtEastPoint]

10. Thanks! Glad someone got it!

[StarryNite]

2. Wow! Such an amazing find.

[luvs2sing]

4. My great-grandfather as on the crew..

that dug up the Johnstown Mastodon here in Ohio.

[jpak]

5. Look at the size of that rib cage!

Why did they need such big lungs?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Their ribcage supported their stomach

Below the cervical vertebrae are the thoracic vertebrae. These bones each attach to one row of ribs from the rib cage. The thoracic region of the spinal column is often much larger in large four-legged mammals, such as horses and elephants because their stomachs are far too heavy to be supported by the muscles of their abdomen so their rib cage extends further down body.

https://basicbiology.net/animal/mammals/skeleton

And stomachs of herbivores will be large.

[jpak]

8. TY

[paleotn]

7. Megafauna! My favorite.....

ever since they dug up this guy in my hometown. They were digging the foundation for what was the First American Building, now the UBS Tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_American_Cave