Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

James Gregory shows the cone-like molars on a mandible of a mastodon he and Mason Kirkland discovered in an obscure creek in ...

Not many art buffs recall Charles Willson Peale’s oil painting, Exhuming the First American Mastodon (1806-08), nor do many readers know Royall Tyler’s novel. The Algerine Captive: or ...

So far, more than 150 mastodon fossils have been found across the state, with around a third of these being unearthed in Orange County. A relative of modern elephants, the American mastodon roamed ...

Carbon dating will help scientists determine the mastodon’s age, diet, and habitat during its lifetime. An American Mastodon stands as visitors tour exhibits at the George C. Page Museum at the ...

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The American mastodon, or Mammut americanum, is a member of the same order as modern-day elephants. Having stood at nearly 10 feet fall with twisty tusks, mastodons existed from 3.5 million years ...

Kyle Finley, a regular visitor to Edisto Beach, South Carolina, stumbled upon a rare American mastodon tooth fossil during a casual evening stroll. "I was walking along the shoreline watching the ...