"This discovery is a testament to the rich paleontological history of New York," New York State Museum's Robert Feranec said.

The proboscidean's jaw was found about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northwest of New York City, and will be put on public ...

In Scotchtown, about 70 miles northwest of New York City, one couple came upon an unusual and thrilling paleontological find ...

A New York homeowner unearthed a mastodon jaw that was peeking from beneath the soil in the backyard of their home.

A seemingly ordinary gardening project in upstate New York turned extraordinary when a local man unearthed a prehistor ...

A New York resident has unearthed a mastodon jaw protruding out of the topsoil in the backyard of their home, the first such ...

A complete mastodon jaw found by a New York homeowner will undergo "extensive scientific analysis" before being put on ...

A New York homeowner found Mastodon fossils in his backyard. This discovery comes more than a decade (11 years) after the ...

A complete and well-preserved jaw that once belonged to an ancient mastodon has been unearthed from the yard of a home in New ...

The jawbone was determined by researchers from the New York State Museum and SUNY Orange to be from a mastodon, an ancient elephant-like species that went extinct around 10,000 years ago.

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons ...