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...m government or industry? On a shoestring,so to speak? Would anyone believe them? What would you do if you could go back 150,000 years to a time when mastodons and saber toothed tigers roamed North America? And what happens when they run out of money? All these questions are explored in the usual humorous, wry Simak way in this story....

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...ce travel is achieved by linking an airship to a comet. Jupiter proves to be a jungle world, with flesh-eating plants, vampire bats, giant snakes and mastodons, and flying lizards. The Americans discover a wealth of exploitable resources: iron, silver, gold, lead, copper, coal, and oil. Saturn, in contrast, is an ancient world of silent spirits. The spirit beings provide t...

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...d became nomads: we hunted the European Bison, and the Wooly Mammoth, and the Mastodons into extinction. Once we began to use tools and emigrated ou...

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... scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons, protopithecae, pterodactyles, and all sorts of extinct monsters ... ... he pursued with animation, “this is a fossil man, the contemporary of the mastodons whose remains fill this amphitheatre. But if you ask me how he ca... ...ubterranean regions, a new son of Neptune, watching this countless herd of mastodons. Immanis pecoris custos, immanior ipse.* Yes, truly, huger still ...

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...im: Kind to her ear as quiring Cherubim, And trampling earth like scornful mastodons. IV The flood that swept her to be slave Adoring, under thought o... ...t, As march the standards down the smoky fight; Her cherubim, her towering mastodons! Directed vault or breach, break through Earth’s toughest, season...

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...le circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving 436 Moby Dic...

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...le circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of ...

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... faunas, that certain genera offer excep- tions to the rule. For instance, mastodons and el- ephants, when arranged by Dr. Falconer in two se- ries, f... ...n naturalisation of plants in India; on fossil crocodile; on elephants and mastodons; and Cautley on mammals of sub-Himalayan beds Falkland Island, wo...

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...oic forests, the colossal grotesque first mam- mals, the giant sloths, the mastodons and mammoths; it is as if some idle dreamer moulded them and brok...

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...ence. When America, and especially North America, possessed its elephants, mastodons, horse, and hol- low-horned ruminants, it was much more closely r... ...the Old World, it seems most probable that the North American el- ephants, mastodons, horse, and hollow-horned ru- minants migrated, on land since sub...