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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Some people want hippopotamuses for Christmas—but a man in Scotchtown, New York, got a mastodon. The man, who does not want to be identified, found a fossilized mastodon jaw, complete with the ...

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 ...