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 ...

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

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 ...

Scotchtown, N.Y. — When a homeowner spotted two big teeth sprouting from the soil like bony plants in a New York backyard, they got curious and dug for answers. The dig revealed two more ...

A New York homeowner found a very unexpected relic lurking just beneath his lawn while gardening: a jawbone from a long-extinct giant. The jawbone was determined by researchers from the New York ...

WALLKILL — State researchers on Tuesday announced a remarkable scientific discovery: mastodon bone fragments, including a complete adult jaw, were found in the backyard of a homeowner in Orange ...

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

ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. – The first discovery of a mastodon fossil in New York state in 11 years was found in the backyard of a Mid-Hudson Valley home. The fossil was found by a resident near ...

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 ...

A historic (or perhaps more accurately, prehistoric) discovery was made just under the surface of a New York homeowner's lawn. A complete mastodon jaw was found in the backyard of a home in the ...