A team of SUNY Orange students, supervised by a professor and an instructor, has unearthed more mastodon remains at the same site where a jaw was found in 2024. For six weeks, the 12 students ...

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 ...

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 ...

The partial remains of a mastodon that dates back 10,000 to 13,000 years were uncovered by Orange County Community College students in a home’s backyard. The archaeological dig site is the same ...

Last month, Orange County provided the dateline for an international news story. Homeowners in Scotchtown saw what they first thought was an old baseball emerging from their backyard lawn. A little ...

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 ...