A homeowner in New York uncovered a complete mastodon jaw in their backyard in what officials are calling a "remarkable discovery." The jaw of the extinct mammal, which was similar to an elephant ...

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 ...

A complete and well-preserved jaw that once belonged to an ancient mastodon has been unearthed from the yard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley.

“I’m so excited that our yard had something so important for science.” A backyard in Orange County, New York, became the site of an incredible discovery of a complete mastodon jaw -- the ...

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while ...

Researchers from the New York State Museum and SUNY Orange travelled to the site, and eventually excavated an entire mastodon jawbone. They also dug up a piece of a toe bone and a rib fragment. “While ...

A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley, marking the state's first such find in more than a decade, officials announced this week. The Stockton ...

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. The mastodon jaw and some ...

A New York couple made an incredible prehistoric find 13,000 years old in their backyard while mowing the lawn: several ...

There have been several discoveries of mastodon remains in the region Including a 13,000-year-old skeleton that was found in ...