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 ...

A team of SUNY Orange students, supervised by a professor and an instructor, has unearthed more mastodon remains at the same site where a jaw was found in 2024. For six weeks, the 12 students ...

In a summer straight out of a science textbook, a group of college students and professors unearthed the partial remains of a 10,000- to 13,000-year-old mastodon in an Orange County backyard. What ...

WALLKILL — Months after a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of mastodon fossils in a homeowner’s backyard last fall, SUNY Orange students have unearthed more remains that are likely from the same Ice Age ...

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 ...

And he did in a big way, when the 66-year-old Portage dentist helped unearth a 4.8 million-year-old mastodon jaw in Mexico this month. Dr. Thomas Magnetti, a resident of Valparaiso, returned from ...