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 combined analysis of genome-wide data from all these ancient elephants and mastodons has raised the curtain on elephant population history, revealing complexity that we were simply not ...

Mastodon DNA cleans up elephant lineage A clearer picture of the Proboscideans, which include modern elephants, is … ...

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.

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 ...

"Mastodon tusks curve upward strongly at the tips and appear to have been used in a vigorous up-thrusting motion," says Fisher. Elephant tusks are less curved and therefore tend to be used more ...

An ice age mastodon died nearly 100 miles from home in a bloody mating season battle in what today is northeast Indiana, reveals new research. The primitive elephant relative's astonishing life ...

Over 13,000 years ago, an American mastodon roamed what is today the American Midwest. Year after year, he returned to an area in northeast Indiana — believed to be a mating ground. It was there ...

SIERRA COUNTY, NM (WLS) -- Bachelor party mastodon skull and tusk find in Elephant Butte Lake State Park believed to be that of stegomastodon.

CANTON, Mississippi — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.