“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 ...
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Stuck in the jawbone of a Mastodon, estimated at 13,000 years old, the bone fragments are now being researched and preserved in Albany at the New York State Museum. "This is a piece of the toe ...
A complete mastodon jaw has been discovered in the back yard of a New York home, along with a few other bits and pieces of the prehistoric herbivore, an extinct relative of modern-day elephants. The ...
A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley, marking the state's first such find in more than a decade, officials announced this week. The Stockton ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange staff unearthed a complete well-preserved ...
Archeologists have unearthed a complete mastodon jaw along with additional bone fragments in the backyard of an Upstate New York home, officials announced Tuesday. The “stunning prehistoric find ...
It’s a gigantic find. An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant, according ...
ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. – The first discovery of a mastodon fossil in New York state in 11 years was found in the backyard of a Mid-Hudson Valley home. The fossil was found by a resident near Scotchtown, ...
“When I found the teeth and examined them in my hands, I knew they were something special," said the homeowner Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find a piece of history in your own backyard? Well, an Orange County resident recently found out. A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed from the ...
New York State Museum and SUNY Orange researchers recovered the jaw and other bone fragments from the backyard of a home near Scotchtown. After preservation and analysis, the fossil will be ...