A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...

Two Mississippi teenagers went to a creek on a hot summer day in June and not only did they find relief from the heat, they discovered a fossil from a giant animal that went extinct more than 10,000 ...

FAIRBANKS -- A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. These mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in ...

Ancestors of today's elephants were forced to constantly migrate because of climate change, new research reveals. Analysis of ancient DNA from the remains of mastodons - including those which roamed ...

The tree roots caught James Gregory's eye the moment he waded into the No Name Creek, which isn't really the creek's name. And the roots weren't really tree roots. They were weird, shaped kind of like ...

Mastodon bones dating back some 13,000 years now sit in the New York State Museum in Albany. They were recently found in the backyard of an Orange County, New York home. Dr. Robert Feranac, the ...

Two Mississippi teenagers discovered a mastodon jaw bone while playing in a creek. The jaw bone, estimated to weigh 70-90 pounds, was later identified by the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The ...