GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After three years, the Clapp Family Mastodon that was found in Kent County will be on display at the ...

The mastodon skeleton that was unearthed in Kent County in 2022 will soon be on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Three years after its discovery near Kent City, Mich., the Clapp Family Mastodon is officially going on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum — and visitors will be able to see the exhibit ...

A mastodon is a prehistoric elephant that went extinct during the last ice age. "This mastodon is at least over 11,000 years old," said Cory Redman, science curator at Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Reiner said the Deville mastodon skeleton — nicknamed Bondo Betty due to the adhesive used for assembly — is the "most complete in Ohio" and none of her bones are fossilized. They were well ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The mastodon skeleton that was unearthed in Kent County in 2022 will soon be on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. While talking about the museum’s summer ...

The mastodon is named Conway after Newton S. Conway, who unearthed it on a farm in western Ohio in 1887. Horse-drawn carriages once carted the skeleton around to county fairs in Ohio.

The mastodon story has made several headlines since 1970 — including, in 1987, when the skeletal remains left the Kent State University Stark campus for the McKinley Museum.

The researchers found the mastodon bones and teeth were all older than 50,000 years old. That means mastodons probably lived in northern Alaska and Yukon during a brief time when temperatures were ...