Two Mississippi teens went to a creek to cool off and stumbled across a jaw of a mastodon, an animal that went extinct more ...

A mastodon is a prehistoric elephant that went extinct during the last ice age. "This mastodon is at least over 11,000 years old," said Cory Redman, science curator at Grand Rapids Public Museum.

After three years, the Clapp Family Mastodon that was found in Kent County will be on display at the Grand Rapids Public ...

Soon people in West Michigan will have a new chance to see 13,000 year-old history up close at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.

The more they dig, the more mastodon remains they find in Orange County, New York. The Ice Age mammals, which may have weighed up to six tons, went extinct 11,000 years ago. But they've been a ...

More mastodon remains have been uncovered in Orange County, New York. In the fall 2024, a mastodon jaw was discovered. A SUNY Orange team has now found numerous other remains.

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...