A well-preserved baby mammoth, named Yana, was discovered in Russia, offering insights into Ice Age ecosystems and ...

Remarkably well preserved ice age remains like those discovered recently in a yard near Scotchtown, N.Y., are rare — but not ...

The New York State Museum is hailing it as a "major discovery" that will help scientists better understand once-abundant ...

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while ...

A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed from the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, the first of this kind of find in the ...

The mammoth, who has been named Yana, lived more than 50,000 years old and evidently suffered a fatal injury to her back during the Ice Age ... animal was retrieved separately, and is also ...

The first mastodon fossil discovery in New York in over 11 years started with some routine gardening in an Orange County ...

A New York homeowner unearthed a mastodon jaw that was peeking from beneath the soil in the backyard of their home.

The best-preserved baby mammoth ever found has been unveiled by scientists in Russia. It is a female that lived 50,000 years ...

Researchers found direct evidence that Clovis people relied heavily on mammoths for food, using isotopic analysis to confirm ...

Museum and SUNY Orange staff arrived at the home and pulled the well-preserved ... of the Ice Age ecosystems from this region,” said Robert Feranec, who curates Ice Age animals for the museum.

A historic (or perhaps more accurately, prehistoric) discovery was made just under the surface of a New York homeowner’s lawn ...