A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery recently took place in the backyard of a New York home that Michigan residents might quickly recognize. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the ...

ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. – The first discovery of a mastodon fossil in New York state in 11 years was found in the backyard of a Mid-Hudson Valley home. The fossil was found by a resident near ...

We now know a lot about how these animals lived and died - but it took years for the nineteenth-century scientific community to establish the facts of mastodon anatomy. In the early nineteenth century ...

“I’m a little jealous, personally, because finding fossils is something that I wish ... are estimating the tooth came from a younger mastodon, maybe in its 20s. Once they get the tooth ...

Many mastodon fossils have previously been found from temperate forests in North America. That’s an ocean away from Greenland, and much farther south, Willerslev said. “I wouldn’t have ...

MOLINE, Ill. — 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 ...

Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn wrote a bill inspired by a fifth grade class that would designate Indiana's official state mammal.

local Mastodon fossils and world-class gem and mineral specimens. The Department of Geosciences is celebrating its 50-year anniversary in the fall of 2015 by highlighting accomplishments and honoring ...