This May 26, 2023, photo provided by the Jennifer Schuh shows a Mastodon Tooth in the sand at an Aptos, Calif., beach. On Tuesday, Jim Smith of nearby Aptos called the museum.

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

Four friends spending the day exploring a creek in eastern Iowa found a mastodon tooth, according to local NBC affiliate KWWL. On what appeared to be a normal summer day, 11-year-old Chase Redfern ...

A fossilized mastodon molar found near the mouth of Aptos Creek this week. The tooth is estimated to be less than 1 million years old. (Photo: Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History) ...

Smith, Broughton said, had brought home an ancient artifact — a mastodon tooth. Jim Smith, pictured outside the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, happened upon a mastodon tooth while on a run.

An adult mastodon tooth that was spotted at Rio Del Mar Beach in Santa Cruz County, California, is now in the hands of paleontologists. The foot-long tooth was found by Jennifer Schuh while ...

The last known mastodon was recovered from peat near Pleasant Lake in Michigan. Dated to nearly 10,500 years ago, it shows signs of butchery and evidence of having been hunted.

What began as a promising lead after the discovery of two mastodon teeth and an intact lower jaw on private property near Middletown in September 2024 has now evolved into a full-fledged ...

Harris recently led students on a weeks-long excavation in a back yard in Wallkill after the homeowner found mastodon teeth. The painstaking dig recovered more pieces. "We found quite a few vertebrae.

She didn’t keep the tooth, but she did hop on Amazon and order herself a replica mastodon tooth necklace. “You don’t often get to touch something from history,” she said.