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A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull was uncovered in an Iowa creek, state officials announced this week.

Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found the well-preserved skull on the side of a creek bed in Wayne County Wednesday at an excavation site they had been mining over the last 12 days.

Throughout the almost two-week dig, several mastodon bones were recovered, but the skull was something unique, as it was the "first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull) that has been excavated in Iowa," the post read.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

mastodon mentioned ✊

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

The excavators suddenly hear a rock guitar:

Zach from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, morphing into his power suit while yelling his dinosaur power, “Mastodon!”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now waiting to find a Lemmy skull

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Federate skulls now!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is with CBS loading a similar, but unrelated video at the top of articles lately? This happened with another story I was reading just this morning on CBS, where the video was the same type of event that the article was talking about, but from a totally different time/place.

Respect your users' bandwidth. If you're going to auto-play a video attached to a news article, then make sure it's related to the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I expect that video based ads make more money than static ads in-line in the article. This the incentive to do such confusing and wasteful thing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But Iowa is only about 6,000 years old...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes these were not saved by noah during the flood because Mastadons were well known sinners. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Those tusks were made for sinning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Beat me to it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it planning to run for President?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Its around the right age