Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

The extinct mastodon continues to have an impact on modern ecosystems in South America. Although this prehistoric ancestor of the elephant species went extinct around 11,000 years ago, the large fruit ...

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 ...

This full scale mastodon skeleton, mounted in the Smithsonian's American Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., shows the Ice Age creature's scale next to the tourists viewing it.

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own fascinating extinct species.

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 mastodon is a member of the order Proboscidea, which also includes the mammoths, modern elephants, and a wide variety of extinct elephant-like species that evolved over the last 60 million ...

Mastodons are long-extinct relatives of modern elephants. The giant mammals lived in New York state alongside mammoths about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, according to the State Museum.

The jaw of the extinct mammal, which was similar to an elephant, and several bone fragments were excavated from a property in Scotchtown by researchers from the New York State Museum and SUNY ...

The giant Mammuthus columbi, for example, migrated as far south as central Mississippi until its eventual extinction around 12,700 BCE. The mastodon’s home, in comparison, included what is now Iowa.

The 13,600-year-old fossil remnants belong to a mastodon (Mammut sp.), a long-extinct, distant relative of today's elephants. "This is the first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull) that ...