After a complete mastodon jaw bone was unearthed from the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown last year, a handful of students and instructors from SUNY Orange felt there was more to uncover. They ...

Inside of mastodon tusks first uncovered at Aurora’s Phillips Park over 90 years ago, workers recently discovered a package dated to 1935 under a layer of plaster. The paper-wrapped, twine-tied bag ...

A New York homeowner found a very unexpected relic lurking just beneath his lawn while gardening: a jawbone from a long-extinct giant. The jawbone was determined by researchers from the New York State ...

At the tail end of the last Ice Age, when Virginia was a chilly spruce-fir forest where dire wolves, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed, where the shoreline of a shrunken ocean lay about 30 ...

A group of SUNY Orange students helped make a big discovery at an archeological dig this summer. Last October, an Orange County homeowner found something odd in their backyard. Dr. Cory Harris, an ...