A New York homeowner, in Scotchtown, Orange County, was "thrilled" to find mastodon fossils in their backyard, which museum ...

Museum officials said 150 mastodon fossils have been found across New York, but a third of them have come from Orange County, where the jaw was discovered. A printed illustration of a mastodon ...

Complete jaw of mastodon found in backyard of Orange County home 01:23. A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley, marking the state's first such ...

A backyard in Orange County, New York, became the site of an incredible discovery of a complete mastodon jaw -- the first find like it in New York in more than 11 years. The jaw, along with a ...

A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed in the backyard of a house in New York, according to the New York State Museum. The jaw, along with a piece of toe bone and a rib fragment, was excavated by ...

The mastodon jaw and some other bone fragments were found in late September in a backyard near Scotchtown, a hamlet about 70 miles northwest of New York City, officials from the New York State ...

A Dutch farmer unearthed the first mastodon found in North America in Claverack, New York, in 1705. Roughly 150 fossils of extinct elephant relatives have been found across the state—about one ...

The mastodon that once owned the jawbone Fischer discovered likely lived between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago. By that time, the last Ice Age was coming to an end, and environmental changes ...

Mastodon fossils have been unearthed across the U.S., with notable discoveries in areas like Florida, Michigan and New York. In fact, 150 mastodon fossils have been found in New York alone, ...

A mastodon jaw fossil was found near a New York home, the first discovery of its kind in over 11 years. Michigan knows a thing or two about mastodons.

A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first such find in more than 11 years, the New York State Education Department said in a news ...