It’s a gigantic find. An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant, according ...

The homeowner initially discovered two teeth hidden by a plant and later spotted two additional teeth a few inches underground. Eventually, scientists excavated the "well-preserved" mastodon jaw. The ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths ...

A backyard in Orange County, New York, became the site of an incredible discovery of a complete mastodon jaw -- the first find like it in New York in more than 11 years. The jaw, along with a ...

Digging in his garden to plant flowers and stumbling upon the remnants of an ice age: this sounds like a scene from a novel that became reality. In Scotchtown, New York State, a mastodon jaw thousands ...

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

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