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

SCOTCHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — 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.

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Digging in his garden to plant flowers and stumbling upon the remnants of an ice age: this sounds like a scene from a novel ...

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

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

A New York couple made an incredible prehistoric find 13,000 years old in their backyard while mowing the lawn: several fossils belonging to a mastodon. Now Dr. Robert Feranec, Director of ...

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. The mastodon ...

“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 ...

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 ...