This allowed them to walk on the soft, waterlogged ground beside ponds and lakes. We now know a lot about how these animals lived and died - but it took years for the nineteenth-century scientific ...

The jawbone was determined by researchers from the New York State Museum and SUNY Orange to be from a mastodon, an ancient elephant-like species that went extinct around 10,000 years ago.

28 on the excavation of a 13,600-year-old Mastodon, one of the most significant prehistoric discoveries in Iowa in recent years. Dr. John Doershuk, the Iowa's State Archaeologist and an Adjunct ...