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 ...

New York State Museum and SUNY Orange researchers recovered the jaw and other bone fragments from the backyard of a home near Scotchtown. After preservation and analysis, the fossil will be featured ...

A backyard in Orange County, New York, became the site of an incredible discovery of a complete mastodon jaw — the first find like it in New York in more than 11 years. (New York State Museum) (NEW ...

A historic (or perhaps more accurately, prehistoric) discovery was made just under the surface of a New York homeowner's lawn. A complete mastodon jaw was found in the backyard of a home in the Orange ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Dozens of people filled the first floor of the Grand Rapids Public Museum on Wednesday night for the unveiling of a highly anticipated exhibit that began on Michael and Courtney ...

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 ...

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 ...