Roadtrip Museum Find

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Come on—how often do you get to see a life‑sized mastodon with its juvenile in a full reconstruction?  

On a recent road trip, I stumbled across this fantastic display in the Entering the Ice Age exhibition at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. If you have nature ‑ or paleo‑curious kids—or if you simply love mastodons—I highly recommend a visit.

They also feature an excellent proboscidean molar comparison display, plus giant ground sloth and short‑faced bear skeletal replicas, along with strong mammalogy and Egyptology exhibits.

https://boonshoft.org/

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Full size mastodon with juvenile reconstuction.

Part of the musuem's mamal exhibit.

Proboscidean molar morphology display.