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OCR: Warren Mastodon EVERY BONE IN THIS MASTODON SKELETON IS REAL DISCOVERED IN 1845 IT WAS the first entire American mastodon skeleton found in the United States and Is still one of the most complete such skeletons known was uncovered by crew digging for peat fuel less than a hundred miles from New York City, in a bog near the town of Newburgh ir Orange County, New York. When found the mastodon was still in the position in which it had died some eleven thousand vears earlier standing upright, with its legs thrust forward and its head tilted upward apparently gasping for air was so well preserved that inside the rib cage were the remains of the animal's last meal which were described by local medical years