A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. But then the fossil vanished, and it took a media ...

A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery recently took place in the backyard of a New York home that Michigan residents might quickly recognize. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of ...

A gigantic tooth that once belonged to an ancient mastodon was discovered, lost and then found again over Memorial Day weekend, after a tourist saw and photographed it on a California beach without ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Fossil lovers get ready, there's a mammoth of a fossil coming soon to the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Well, maybe not a mammoth, but a close relative — a mastodon.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — The mastodon is breaking down ...

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s hard to imagine that Downtown Austin was once a lush forest where giant mammals roamed, but you need to look no further than the 22-story office building at 301 Congress Ave. When ...

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, ...