The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

INSIDE SKEPTIC

in this issue

Mammoth Mysteries! Part One

• Vanished Worlds; Forgotten Giants
• Giant Fossils and Elephants
• Underground Rat-monsters
• Multipling Mysteries: Early Tales of the Siberian Mammoth
• Siberian Mammoths: New Facts Emerge
• Noah’s Flood and Mammoth Misinformation
• Mammoth Mysteries in America

By Daniel Loxton. This issue’s cover features a digital painting by Daniel Loxton.

from the Introduction

Hello!

In the pages of Junior Skeptic, we often look at “wild and wooly” mysteries—but today I mean that literally. In this issue we’ll explore the hidden history of mammoths and mastodons! The elephant family tree has had many oddly shaped branches. There once existed elephants with four tusks or even tusks shaped like shovels. But fossils of mammoths and mastodons weren’t just surprising—they changed science forever! Indeed, the discovery of these great shaggy prehistoric beasts overturned our understanding of the entire world. How did that happen? Let’s find out!