Describes how, in 1801, Charles Willson Peale came across the skeleton of a creature that no one had ever seen before and explains how it greatly stirred the scientific community and changed previous scientific opinions that nothing God created could ever become extinct.
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Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon.".
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