Re: Collections: Mastodon Frenzy (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2007/2008 By Elizabeth Collins By the 18th century, a massive, meat-eating elephant was haunting people’s dreams. Shawnee and Delaware tribal tales of meat-eating beasts hunted by giant men fed conclusions by key scientists, around 1770, that fragmentary fossil finds between 1705 and 1770 of nearly five-pound teeth … Continue reading Mastodon Discovery in Farmington