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
Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe created in 1877, when J. H. Haverly merged four of the companies he owned and managed. Borrowing techniques from showmen like P. T. Barnum, Haverly advertised the Mastodons in broadsides, newspapers, and playbills: "FORTY—COUNT 'EM—40—FORTY—HAVERLY'S UNITED MASTODON MINSTRELS". Another ad read, "Forty is a magical and historical number. In the time of Noah it rained forty days and forty nights. The Children of Israel wandered forty years in the wilderness. Haverly's famous forty are just as important." The Mastodons entered every new town in two columns, spread