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The difference is not in the season. The difference is in the weight of it. For the mastodon, April was a possibility buried too deep to measure. For April, the mastodon is a certainty she can hold. She turns the tooth over. One cusp is worn flat—from chewing twigs, she thinks, from stripping bark off alders that grew beside a river that no longer follows this course.

In the Pleistocene, April meant something different. It meant the end of the worst cold, the first mud, the first green shoots pushing through the graveyards of snow. And moving through that half-frozen world: the mastodon. Heavy-shouldered, shaggy, crowned with a matted crest of hair. It walked the same valleys we now suburbanize, its tusks curved like ancient parentheses around a sentence no one finished.

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The most prominent reports concerning "Mastodon" in early 2025 involve a major lineup shift and subsequent tragedy: Brent Hinds' Departure (March–April 2025):