Earlier this fall, a resident in the town of Wallkill's hamlet of Scotchtown unearthed the first pieces of what turned out to be a full mastodon jaw in his yard. The resident, who did not want to be ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — Paleontologists are busy this Memorial Day weekend trying to find a tooth in Santa Cruz County that dates back to the Ice Ages. An unknown beach-goer picked up a giant ...

A gigantic tooth that once belonged to an ancient mastodon was discovered, lost and then found again over Memorial Day weekend, after a tourist saw and photographed it on a California beach without ...

States have had official fossils for a while. In Alabama it’s the Wooly Mammoth that holds the distinction of being the state’s fossil while the Saber-toothed tiger earned the cool cat distinction in ...

A massive mastodon tooth dating from the Ice Age has been turned into a local museum by a jogger after it was initially discovered on a California beach before disappearing once someone posted the ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find a piece of history in your own backyard? Well, an Orange County resident recently found out. A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed from the ...

An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, has revealed the Ice Age giants migrated vast ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — A mastodon mystery has been solved in Santa Cruz County. On Tuesday, a beach jogger turned in a giant mastodon tooth dating back to the Ice Ages, officials with the Santa ...

As a runner trekked across a California beach, something caught his eye. Jim Smith, who frequently runs in the Aptos area in Santa Cruz County, kept on going, though, Liz Broughton, the visitor ...

The U-M Museum of Natural History is the only place in the world where visitors can find a mastodon couple exhibited together. (Photo by Michelle Andonian) ANN ARBOR – The University of Michigan ...