The more they dig, the more mastodon remains they find in Orange County, New York. The Ice Age mammals went extinct 11,000 ...

The mastodon findings have been sent to the New York State Museum for examination and curation while a number of other ...

Mastodon bones from a Southern California site bear the scars of human activity from 130,700 years ago, more than 100,000 years before humans were thought to have settled North America.

In a provocative and controversial claim, scientists say a scattering of bones and stones suggests ancestral humans reached the New World more than 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Microscopic bone residue found on this stone supports a disputed claim that the rock was used to break apart mastodon bones at a southern California site around 130,000 years ago, researchers say.

If the broken Mastodon bones really are evidence of a prehistoric tool-making or marrow buffet site, it would be the oldest such archaeological site on the continent by as much as 100,000 years.

Neighbors dig up 42 mastodon bones in Michigan yard. He said one of the team members from the University of Michigan was jumping up and down with excitement. "I think for her, ...

CT scans and new DNA technology indicate that a bone sharpened into a spear was used to kill a mastodon in the northwestern U.S. 13,800 years ago. The research revisits an old debate about the ...

Paleontologists work near ancient mastodon bones on a shelf, part of an extensive discovery unearthed from Snowmass, Colo., inside a workroom at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in November ...

Officials estimate that the mastodon died in the Paleoindian period -- and had been buried undetected for 13,600 years. ... Once the mastodon bones are thoroughly studied and analyzed, ...

KENT COUNTY, MI -- When Kim Pugno heard that mastodon bones had been discovered close to her Grant area house, she went to check it out. It wasn’t long before she was sloshing around in a muddy ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Mastodon bones recently unearthed in southern Indiana are now at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. The bones, which belonged to a mastodon dubbed “Alfred,” were ...