And it’s not.” The box was opened. What he saw inside — two yellowed teeth from a long-dead mastodon — stirred in Dr. Harris a thrill he hadn’t felt in years. “I was crazy excited ...

From New York comes the story of a complete adult mastodon jaw unearthed during yard work. The jaw, along with additional bone fragments and teeth, was recovered by researchers from the New York ...

A homeowner in Scotchtown, New York discovered mastodon teeth while gardening, leading to the discovery of a fully preserved mastodon jaw. It was the first mastodon fossil found in the state in ...

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 ...

The dig revealed two more “unusual” teeth inches below the surface, the New York State Museum said. That’s when experts stepped in — unearthing the first mastodon fossils in the Empire ...

Some people want hippopotamuses for Christmas—but a man in Scotchtown, New York, got a mastodon. The man, who does not want to be identified, found a fossilized mastodon jaw, complete with the ...

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 ...

WALLKILL — Earlier this fall, when local homeowners came to Cory Harris’ SUNY Orange office to show him two teeth they found in their backyard, Harris knew they had something special.

A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard ... The Stockton, New York, homeowner initially spotted two teeth hidden in the fronds of a plant on their property and proceeded to uncover ...

"It was the biggest tooth I've ever seen in person." A subsequent trip to the excavation site — a.k.a. the couple's Orange County property — revealed two more mastodon teeth embedded in a ...