Island 35 Mastodon Island 35 Mastodon The Island 35 Mastodon was discovered on Island No. 35 of the Mississippi River in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States. In 1900, a Pleistocene mastodon skeleton was excavated approximately east of Reverie, Tennessee and southeast of Wilson, Arkansas. In 1957 the site was reported as destroyed. Mastodons are members of the prehistoric, extinct genus "Mammut". They resemble modern elephants. Native to North America, they are said to have lived on the North American continent from almost 4 million years ago, in the Pliocene Epoch, until their eventual disappearance about 10,000 years ago. In 1900, archaeologist James K.
Extinct animals from the Isle of Man Extinct animals from the Isle of Man Manx cattle became extinct c. 1815. A description of the breed survives along with a record that the Manx people referred to them as "Boaghans" or "Boghans" (Manx words for cow include "Booa" and "Baa"). Thomas Quayle described the Manx breed, just as they were dying out, in his 1812 "General View of Agriculture in the Isle of Man": The Manx sheepdog was a breed of sheepdog from the Isle of Man that is now extinct. Little is known about the breed except that it had a remarkable "ability to 'hould' or separate