Well, an Orange County resident recently found out. A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed from the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, the first of this kind of find in the state in over 11 ...

Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is not the product of a Silicon Valley start-up. Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a ...

A teenager went looking for arrowheads on a friend’s farm in Iowa. Instead, he found the bones of a 34,000-year-old mastodon — an elephant cousin that went extinct 10,000 years ago.

Snowmass, Colorado, is the site of an incredible discovery of prehistoric mammal bones. Travelers can hike the beauty of this ...

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 ...

An illustration of an American mastodon and its calf. An American mastodon jaw at the State Museum in Albany. An illustration of a Columbian mammoth, which roamed a tundra-like environment tens of ...