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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Environment - 06/Sep 21:54

Discovering Ancient Giants: The Mastodon Museum of Greece

Painting of mastodons in their habitat. Credit: Courtesy of Ursula Weidner The village of Neokaisaria, with its 300 inhabitants, is located between Mount Olympus and the Pieria Mountains in Greece and is home to a spectacular mastodon museum. Opposite the church, this mastodon museum draws attention to itself with a picture of one of these proboscideans on its façade. Visitors are greeted here by Savas, chairman of the museum’s supporting association and the guide for the day. Mastodons were mammals similar to mammoths but differed in height and length as well as the structure of their molars, which gave the species its name. The name comes from Greek: Mastos means...

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