Two Mississippi teens went to a creek to cool off and stumbled across a jaw of a mastodon, an animal that went extinct more ...

The elephant in the Mastodon message room is a privacy red herring With absolutely no regret about the pun, let's address the elephant in the room first: direct messaging.

The forehead was smaller than an elephant's, and hair on a mastodon's coat could grow up to nearly 35 inches long. Male tusks could stretch up to 8 feet, though lady mastodons didn't have tusks.

Today, 40 years later, the memory of that historic find lives-on in the jazz club near the site where the bones were found. It’s known as “The Elephant Room,” named in honor of the mastodons ...

A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. Fred's skeleton is preserved in the Indiana State Museum. It can be tough to reconstruct ...

Mastodons – elephant-like beasts that lumbered across North America more than 10,000 years ago – are long extinct, but apparently it wasn’t tooth decay that did them in. A 9-year-old ...

Mastodons were relatives of the elephant that stood 10 feet (3 meters) tall and migrated to North America some 15 million years ago. They ranged across the continent with saber-tooth tigers, giant ...

I have a soft spot for the American mastodon. The beast lived at the same time as the famous woolly mammoth, yet the mastodon is not nearly as popular as its tundra-living cousin. I can relate to ...

A 7-foot tall, 8-foot long mastodon puppet fills the stage for Rachel Teagle’s offbeat comedy “The Impracticality of Mastodons,” which opens Friday for a two-weekend run.

But now, researchers say it's likely that 13,800 years ago, hunters slaughtered elephant-like mastodons using bony projectile points not much bigger around than pencils, sharpened to needle-like tips.

A temporary elephant skull exhibit features replicas of an adult male African elephant, a mammoth skull, a shovel-tooth elephant and the small female mastodon that came out of Snowmass.

‘Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age’ runs through April 19 in Kahn Hall in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, One Wade Oval Drive. The exhibit is included with regular admission.