Annalee Newitz 🍜As usual history has erased the truth. It was #JoanMastodon, not #JohnMastodon. She is the one who de-extincted the giant woolly beasts of the great plains using DNA culled from a single tooth! Joan rode upon the back of the greatest tooter of them all to San Francisco, where a herd of ancient Pleistocene mammals defeated the Bad Car Man! Long live Joan! Long live Mastadonity! #noxp
Steve In AshlandJoan was the one dropping the comets as Erth* formed, creating the biosphere. After that she shaped the mountains using glaciers. That made the home where the original Mastodons roamed.
* In Joan’s early days the planet was called “Erth”. She copied the ‘a’ from “Joan” and made it “Earth” because it looked nicer to her that way.