A Virginia family got a surprise holiday visitor when a large owl flew into their home through the chimney and found a ...

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

The mastodon jaw and some other bone fragments were found in late September in a backyard near Scotchtown, New York.

"Mastodon teeth are pretty readily identifiable," Harris said. Mastodon fossils have regularly been found in Orange County. Restaurant inspections:What Middletown area restaurants were cited for ...

Museum officials said 150 mastodon fossils have been found across New York, but a third of them have come from Orange County, where the jaw was discovered. "While the jaw is the star of the show ...

compared with a toe from the Temple Hill Mastodon (top), which was previously uncovered in Orange County, New York New York State Museum “I’m thrilled that our property has yielded such an ...

A complete mastodon jaw found by a New York homeowner will undergo "extensive scientific analysis" before being put on ...

The new discovery is the first of its kind in New York state for at least 11 years and appeared in a county rich with ...

About 150 mastodon fossils have been found across New York. The Ice Age mammals, which should not be confused with the larger woolly mammoths, seemed to have an had an affinity for Orange County, ...