Mammoth construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The closest relatives of the Proboscidea are the sirenians and the hyraxes. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Among many now extinct clades, the mastodon is only a distant relative of the mammoths, and part of the separate Mammutidae family, which diverged 25 million years before the mammoths evolved. The following cladogram shows the placement
Oblivion (Mastodon song) as the video ends. The video won the Best Video title at the 2009 Kerrang! Awards. According to Brann Dailor, the video was influenced by Stanley Kubrick's science fiction film "". An instrumental version of "Oblivion" appears on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game, "Brütal Legend". Oblivion (Mastodon song) Oblivion is the second single from "Crack the Skye" by American progressive metal band Mastodon. It is their second-most successful single and song from "Crack the Skye", reaching #30 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; however, it has since been surpassed by "Curl of the Burl," which