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
High Road (Mastodon song) High Road (Mastodon song) "High Road" is a single by American heavy metal band Mastodon. The song was released as the debut single from their sixth album, "Once More 'Round the Sun". The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost to Tenacious D's cover of Dio's "The Last in Line." The song's official music video was uploaded to the band's YouTube channel on June 11, 2014. The video was directed by Roboshobo. The video begins with a teenage boy watching two scantly dressed women play a game of chess, while he sits on a