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A fossil was a rallying point for a new American nation. In 1806 the prize attraction at the Philadelphia Museum was an 11-foot-tall skeleton thought to be a flesh-eating American "monster" dubbed "Peale's mastodon." Its large tusks were mounted upside down, giving it a fierce look. Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers took a particular interest in the beast, as its existence belied the "American degeneracy" theory of naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. ...

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