It’s a gigantic find. An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant ...

I n a quiet neighborhood near Scotchtown, New York, a homeowner unearthed a stunning prehistoric relic in their backyard: an intact mastodon jaw fossil.The remarkable find, made just 70 miles from ...

Researchers at Kansas University are excited about what they may find at a dig site in western Missouri where bones of a prehistoric mammal — probably a young mastodon — were found last week.

The Quad Cities Archaeological Society is hosting a presentation on Tuesday, Jan. 28 on the excavation of a 13,600-year-old Mastodon, one of the most significant prehistoric discoveries in Iowa in ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

A full jaw belonging to a prehistoric Mastodon has been unearthed in a New York homeowner’s backyard. The jaw and other fragments were recently “recovered by researchers from the New York ...

The mastodon jaw pokes out of the earth in Orange County, New York. More than 150 fossils from the prehistoric mammal have been found around the state (New York State Museum) The excavation and ...

Mastodons were similar to the also-extinct mammoth but had flatter heads and straighter tusks. “We're talking about a small area of less than one hectare,” Meza said. “To date, we've ...

A New York homeowner made a remarkable discovery in their backyard last September. The teeth from a complete mastodon jaw were peaking out of the soil. The stunning find near the hamlet of ...