The more they dig in Orange County, the more mastodon remains they find. The Ice Age mammals went extinct 11,000 years ago.

The mastodon findings have been sent to the New York State Museum for examination and curation while a number of other ...

Mastodon bones from a Southern California site bear the scars of human activity from 130,700 years ago, more than 100,000 years before humans were thought to have settled North America.

A team of SUNY Orange students unearthed remains of a mastodon vertebrae at the same site where a jaw was found in 2024.

In a provocative and controversial claim, scientists say a scattering of bones and stones suggests ancestral humans reached the New World more than 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Microscopic bone residue found on this stone supports a disputed claim that the rock was used to break apart mastodon bones at a southern California site around 130,000 years ago, researchers say.

If the broken Mastodon bones really are evidence of a prehistoric tool-making or marrow buffet site, it would be the oldest such archaeological site on the continent by as much as 100,000 years.

Ancient mastodon bones and stone tools found near San Diego suggest humans arrived in the Americas 115,000 years earlier than we previously thought.

The bone, one of the animal's vertebrae, is less than a foot tall and weighs a couple of pounds; Discovery is fourth record of the American mastodon in Macomb County, Mich.

Mastodon bones at the Virginia Living Museum and mid-century photos of African-American life in Gloucester County are among the state's top 10 endangered artifacts - now readers can make one of ...

KENT COUNTY, MI -- When Kim Pugno heard that mastodon bones had been discovered close to her Grant area house, she went to check it out. It wasn’t long before she was sloshing around in a muddy ...

Officials estimate that the mastodon died in the Paleoindian period -- and had been buried undetected for 13,600 years. ... Once the mastodon bones are thoroughly studied and analyzed, ...