The New York State Museum is hailing it as a "major discovery" that will help scientists better understand once-abundant ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - In the middle of an ancient dust and thunderstorm, a mastodon fights against the weather to survive. It’s following the edge of a glacier jutting up to the ...

Mastodon bones are rare discoveries, but Orange County, N.Y., has proved to be a national hotbed for these extraordinary ...

The Mastodon went extinct approximately 13,000 years ago because of the severe climate change that was caused just before the last ice age was about to end. Mastodons, though smaller than mammoths ...

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

A homeowner in New York uncovered a complete mastodon jaw in their backyard in what officials are calling a "remarkable discovery." The jaw of the extinct mammal, which was similar to an elephant ...

well-preserved adult jaw and fragments of rib and toe bones that once belonged to a mastodon — ancient giants that existed during the Ice Age and became extinct some 10,000 years ago.

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.

The first mastodon fossil discovery in New York in over 11 years started with some routine gardening in an Orange County backyard. Working among some shrubbery, a homeowner found something curious in ...

Officials with the Albany-based state museum said the jaw was the first complete mastodon jaw found in New York in 11 years. They said there have been more than 150 fossils from the extinct ...

Now, researchers are preparing to analyze the first complete mastodon jaw discovered in the ... but ultimately went extinct around 10,500 years ago. The exact cause of their disappearance remains ...

well-preserved adult jaw and fragments of rib and toe bones that once belonged to a mastodon — ancient giants that existed during the Ice Age and became extinct some 10,000 years ago.