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 ...

What began as a simple search for arrowheads on an Iowa farm turned into an extraordinary encounter with the past. A teenager’s unexpected discovery of a 34,000-year-old mastodon jaw is now capturing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...