A 6-year-old boy found a mastodon tooth while on a family walk in Michigan. DETROIT, Mich. -- A 6-year-old boy noticed something on the ground while on a family walk in Michigan last month.

Two Mississippi teens went to a creek to cool off and stumbled across a jaw of a mastodon, an animal that went extinct more ...

Former Mastodon guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night in Atlanta. He was 51.

What began as a promising lead after the discovery of two mastodon teeth and an intact lower jaw on private property near Middletown in September 2024 has now evolved into a full-fledged ...

Compared to a lot of other excavations, Harris says the process was relatively simple. "We knew that we had a jaw with mastodon teeth there, which is smoking gun, absolute evidence of a mastodon.

Using newer techniques of radiocarbon dating, researchers found the mastodon bones and teeth were all older than 50,000 years. That means mastodons probably lived in northern Alaska and Yukon ...