What he saw inside — two yellowed teeth from a long-dead mastodon ... There they found the jaw of an adult mastodon — a cousin to the woolly mammoth, which roamed North America until ...

A complete and well-preserved jaw that once belonged to an ancient mastodon has been unearthed from the yard of a home in New York's Hudson Valley.

"It was the biggest tooth I've ever seen in person ... to the modern elephant and the also extinct woolly mammoth. More than 150 mastodon fossils have been discovered across the state ...

An excavation which was helped by the State University of New York, found a well-preserved jaw of an adult mastodon, a piece of a toe bone and part of a rib. People at the museum said it was the first ...

Image of the mastodon teeth found in New York (main) and stock illustration of a woolly mammoth. Mastodons, which appeared similar to mammoths, roamed North American tens of thousands of years ago.

While the mammoth was adapted to grazing on grass, the mastodon crushed branches and woody plants using its cone-shaped teeth. This particular diet indicates a forest-dwelling lifestyle adapted to the ...

Mastodon are extinct mammals of the elephant ... the job at an Iowa community college discovered an 11-pound woolly mammoth tooth while excavating at the site.

A complete mastodon jaw was discovered in the ... to a group of massive elephant-like species, like the mammoth. "When I found the teeth and examined them in my hands, I knew they were something ...