Analysis of mastodon tusk reveals first evidence of seasonal migration
Using new isotopic and life-history analyses technology, scientists were able to reconstruct he landscape where the animal roamed during his adolescence and final years of his life.
University of Michigan paleontologist and study co-leader Daniel Fisher participated in the Buesching mastodon excavation 24 years ago. He later used a bandsaw to cut a thin, lengthwise slab from the center of the animal’s banana-shaped, 9½-foot right tusk.(photo credit: COURTESY OF DANIEL FISHER)ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKYUpdated:
