New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...

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 ...

Mastodon remains are much rarer than those of North American mammoth species, and Orange County is a hot bed of mastodon ...

A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first such find in more than 11 years, the New York State Education Department said in a news ...

A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley, marking the state's first such find in more than a decade, officials announced this week. The Stockton ...

Earlier this fall, a resident in the town of Wallkill's hamlet of Scotchtown unearthed the first pieces of what turned out to be a full mastodon jaw in his yard. The resident, who did not want to ...

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.