Researchers in Costa Rica have uncovered ancient mastodon and giant sloth fossils, shedding light on the prehistoric giants that once roamed the region.

Costa Rica's Museo Nacional announces a groundbreaking fossil discovery in Cartago, including remains of a mastodon-like ...

In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice Age: a mastodon. Bowling Green State University studied the ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

Two Mississippi teenagers discovered a mastodon jaw bone while playing in a creek. The jaw bone, estimated to weigh 70-90 pounds, was later identified by the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The ...

A group of SUNY Orange students helped make a big discovery at an archeological dig this summer. Last October, an Orange County homeowner found something odd in their backyard. Dr. Cory Harris, an ...

About a month ago Paleocris and I met up with Jack from the JOOGSQUAD for some killer fossil hunting! We had access to a great land site with fossil shark teeth, including Megalodon AND fossil Ice Age ...

After a complete mastodon jaw bone was unearthed from the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown last year, a handful of students and instructors from SUNY Orange felt there was more to uncover. They ...

WALLKILL — Months after a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of mastodon fossils in a homeowner’s backyard last fall, SUNY Orange students have unearthed more remains that are likely from the same Ice Age ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...