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, according to ...

DETROIT, Mich. -- A 6-year-old boy noticed something on the ground while on a family walk in Michigan last month. It turned out to be a mastodon tooth. Appropriately enough, he found it at the ...

“I’m so excited that our yard had something so important for science.” A backyard in Orange County, New York, became the site of an incredible discovery of a complete mastodon jaw -- the first find ...

Scotchtown, N.Y. — When a homeowner spotted two big teeth sprouting from the soil like bony plants in a New York backyard, they got curious and dug for answers. The dig revealed two more “unusual” ...

A mastodon jawbone was found in an Evendale creek almost 35 years ago. This holiday season, a new light and sculpture gallery in the nearby woods pays homage to the prehistoric bone. The Acres, a ...

WALLKILL — Months after a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of mastodon fossils in a homeowner’s backyard last fall, SUNY Orange students have unearthed more remains that are likely from the same Ice Age ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, a land bridge emerged between Siberia and North America offering wandering humans an easier route than their seafaring predecessors. In time, they spread out, carrying ...

AREA UNTIL THOSE REPAIRS ARE FULLY MADE. WE’RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT A PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY IN ONE SOUTHERN IOWA COMMUNITY. THE OFFICE OF THE STATE ARCHEOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA SAYS THEY HAVE ...

Pt. one: The Jeffersonians -- Fossil hunters on the frontier -- Big Bone Lick -- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum -- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change -- The first American ...