In the blue shadows after dawn, the low hills in this stretch of South Dakota can look like a line of elephants trudging toward some distant water hole. It’s a geologic echo of the great herds of ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...

An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, has revealed the Ice Age giants migrated vast ...

Students uncovered more mastodon bones at an Orange County excavation site. See what researchers found and how the discovery ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This upper molar from an American Mastodon. The Mastodon is an extinct species and a distant relative to mammoths and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Mastodons may have gone extinct thousands of years ago, but visitors can still see reminders of the Ice Age in the Tri-State — including a replica and a nearby juvenile mastodon in ...

INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Reps. Erin Houchin (R-IN) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) have introduced the National Fossil Act. The bipartisan legislation amends Title 36 of the United States Code to designate the ...