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 ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ...

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 ...

In fact, mammoths and mastodons shook the foundations of conventional ... (the one prior attempt being a decidedly less thrilling giant ground sloth in Madrid), and it became a national sensation ...

Newspapers trumpeted the discovery, calling the find—long known to Native Americans—“the Sylvan Mastodon” and ... The astounding trees we now know as giant sequoias can live for more ...

People are flocking to Mastodon as a Twitter alternative. Here's how to get started on the app. Credit: Getty Images When I first made an account on Mastodon, Twitter’s supposed successor ...

From giant fossil mammals to mysterious moths, uncover the colourful stories behind some of the Museum's most fascinating specimens. This is the first mastodon fossil from Britain ever described. It ...

Late last week, founding guitarist Brent Hinds and Mastodon that they were amicably parting ways after 25 years together. The band wrote at the time: “We’re deeply proud of and beyond grateful ...