10/17/2023 0 Comments Hips don t lie videos![]() ![]() ![]() The name, American Incognitum, traces back to the first discovery of mastodons in the world. No, I’m not talking about an X-Men character here, I’m talking about a distant relative of the modern-day elephant. The American what? The American Incognitum. Eye Level talked with a paleontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to find our more about mastodons. It's inclusion in the exhibition represents a homecoming for this important fossil that has been in Europe since 1847, and emphasizes that natural history and natural monuments bond Humboldt with the United States. ![]() While the Smithsonian American Art Museum rarely houses fossil remains, an amazing specimen, the original “Peale Mastodon” skeleton, is part of the upcoming exhibition Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. Inventories of American Painting and SculptureĪdvait Mahesh Jukar measuring the circumference of the femur to figure out how much the mastodon weighted.
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