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

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilised mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year. The mastodon jaw and some ...

Charles Shelton Jr. has collected thousands of shark teeth, jaws and other fossils over the past three decades. He now shares ...

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Shelton encouraged aspiring hunters to keep an open mind with what could look like a tooth or fossil. Some fossils can look like ordinary rocks from one side, while hiding mastodon teeth or ...

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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.

In Scotchtown, New York State, a mastodon jaw thousands of years old recently surfaced. It all began with two massive teeth slightly protruding from the ground. Curious, the amateur gardener decided ...

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