Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum (Nostimo) teeth of a shark that was 20–25 m long, and a Late Pliocene (3.5 million years old) tooth of an "Anancus arvenensis", a mastodon, an ancient relative of the elephant, which has been recognised here for the first time in the wider area of Western Macedonia. The mastodon which lived in this area was about the same size as a modern elephant, but with longer tusks. Also displayed are some Neolithic tools (from the 4th millennium BC): a fishing weight, and a blade for harvesting crops. Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum (Nostimo) The Paleontological and Paleobotanical Museum () at Nostimo is
Extinct language may be considered "extinct", especially in cases where they did not leave a corpus of literature or liturgy that remained in widespread use (see corpus language), as is the case with e.g. Old English or Old High German relative to their contemporary descendants, English and German. Some degree of misunderstanding can result from designating languages such as Old English and Old High German as extinct, or Latin dead, while ignoring their evolution as a language. This is expressed in the apparent paradox "Latin is a dead language, but Latin never died." A language such as Etruscan, for example, can be