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The more they dig in Orange County, the more mastodon remains they find. The Ice Age mammals went extinct 11,000 years ago.
An Ice Age mastodon was found 55 years ago in Stark County, by prominent real estate developer Roger DeVille and his crew.
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.
Paleontologists have dug up a 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that looks like it was smashed apart by humans. But they found it in America, where people were not supposed to have arrived for ...
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.
The bone, one of the animal's vertebrae, is less than a foot tall and weighs a couple of pounds; Discovery is fourth record of the American mastodon in Macomb County, Mich.
A team of construction workers were shocked after finding huge bones underground Thursday while working on roads in Kent County. The discovered fossils will be brought to the Grand Rapids Public ...
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 ...
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, ...