GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable tubes floating around him, fossil and treasure hunter Matthew Mitchell held up a mastodon tooth — a ...

While mowing the lawn back in September, a homeowner in Orange County, New York, spotted strange objects poking through the plants. At first, the resident thought they were baseballs. But after ...

A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery recently took place in the backyard of a New York home that Michigan residents might quickly recognize. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of ...

A complete mastodon jaw has been discovered in the back yard of a New York home, along with a few other bits and pieces of the prehistoric herbivore, an extinct relative of modern-day elephants. 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, according to ...

A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery was recently made in the backyard of a New York home. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first ...

SCOTCHTOWN, N.Y. — Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year. The mastodon ...

At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large ...