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.

For the first time in 11 years, a complete mastodon jaw has been unearthed in the state of New York. What makes this discovery even more remarkable is that the prehistoric specimen turned up 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 ...

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.