The mastodon tooth has large cusps and basins for crushing tree leaves, twigs and other roughage between deep V-shaped grooves. The mammoth tooth is much flatter but has elaborate folds or ridges.

There are tusks, of course, and real and replicated mammoth and mastodon teeth, Randy Weis’ personal favorite. “That mastodon had the most beautiful teeth I ever did see,” he said.

A verified mastodon tooth was found by 6-year-old Julian Gagnon of Grosse Pointe Woods, who then donated it to the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.

It was a mastodon tooth, right in the same area where we know mastodons lived in Santa Cruz County,” Thompson told KRON 4. Photos of the tooth circulated on social media on May 26.

CORRECTION: This story originally stated that it was a mastadon tooth, but it has since been confirmed as a mammoth tooth. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience. MILLERSBURG, Ohio ...

But for 6-year-old Julian Gagnon, finding a 12,000-year-old mastodon tooth in Michigan was the highlight of his walk back in early September. He was out with his parents at Dinosaur Hill Nature ...

A verified mastodon tooth was found by 6-year-old Julian Gagnon of Grosse Pointe Woods, who then donated it to the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology.

Mastodon Tooth Mastodons, relatives of the prehistoric woolly mammoth, roamed the Eurasian and North American continents about 20,000 years ago. Their fossils are scattered largely throughout the ...

NORTH JAVA, N.Y. — The tooth lay on the ground. It was big enough to trip over. Bob Moffett had retreated into western New York’s hilly uplands after a harrowing tour in Vietnam. In 1999, he ...

WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 20.--Prof. Allen, of the Agassiz Museum of Paleontology at Cambridge, has carefully examined the mammoth teeth found in Shrewsbury and has decided that they belong to the ...

Mammoth remains are not uncommon in Ohio, but are much less common than mastodon remains. Both mammoths and mastodons went extinct about 10,000 years ago.

CORRECTION: This story originally stated that it was a mastadon tooth, but it has since been confirmed as a mammoth tooth. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience. MILLERSBURG, Ohio ...