the were hunted and killed for meat and sport until they were gone
Mastodons are extinct,
No, they didn't.Mastodons belonged to a genus of the extinct family Mammutidae.
Mastodons and most mammoths became extinct by 10,000 years ago. However, the remains of a Columbian mammoth have been found in the US dating to only about 8,000 years ago, and pygmy mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 2500 BC (only 4,500 years ago)!
Mastodons were found throughout North and South America.
God made mastodons in 4000 BC.
The mastodons, extinct for over 12,000 years, inhabited the continent of North America, with the first remains being discovered in the village of Claverack, New York in the year 1705. There has been comparisons to fossils found in Africa and Asia, however those fossils have not been named.
Mammoths and mastodons were abundant 10,000 years ago. Currently, we live in the Cenozoic era, which began 65.5 million years ago. Therefor, mammoths and mastodons were abundant in the Cenozoic era.
Mastodons were herbivores, so they ate things like leaves and fruit.
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The American Mastodons were top predators and therefore had few enemies. Juvenile Mastodons were at risk from being killed by short-faced bears and American lions.
Saber toothed cats became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago. They probably died out because important food sources, such as mammoths and mastodons, became extinct. It is still unknown why those megafaunal herbivores died out.
The ice age animals include saber tooth tigers, giant sloths, mammoths, and mastodons. They are now extinct but have been discovered through the collection of fossils.