I'm truly honoured to be able to regale you with my sick biological information on a website such as this; Mastodon: the name sake of a long extinct elephanté style behemoth or so the archaeological record shows. How fitting it is that in the geological 'strata' the fossilized forms of mastodonia can be found; and in the same way mastodon posts (known colloqiually as "mastos"; active verb "masting") are found layered in the iCloud or somesuch other remote computing infrastructure