Mastodon bones dating back some 13,000 years now sit in the New York State Museum in Albany. They were recently found in the backyard of an Orange County, New York home. Dr. Robert Feranac ...

At the time, archaeologists examined the bone and identified it as a mastodon femur. This spiked their interest and led them ...

In fact, 150 mastodon fossils have been found in New York alone, around a third of which within Orange County. When this newly discovered jawbone was recovered by experts, other bone fragments ...

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Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

It's all about the Mastodon bones that were uncovered in southern Iowa in 2022. They were found by a local resident who found a remarkably well-preserved femur in a drainage area in Wayne County.

“All the bones are brown-colored, tea-colored, because the plant material stains them.” The very first mastodon bones were unearthed in Claverack in 1705. Some believed they were the remains ...