KENT COUNTY, Mich. -- It's the discovery everyone in West Michigan is talking about: mastodon bones unearthed in Kent County. ABC affiliate WZZM got a look at the pre-historic bones, which are now at ...

Earlier this fall, a resident in the town of Wallkill's hamlet of Scotchtown unearthed the first pieces of what turned out to be a full mastodon jaw in his yard. The resident, who did not want to be ...

A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery recently took place in the backyard of a New York home that Michigan residents might quickly recognize. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of ...

For almost half a century, the whereabouts of the mastodon skeleton found in rural Fulton County, have been a mystery.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Clapp Family Mastodon, a 13,000-year-old collection of mastodon bones found in Kent County, caught up with the times this week as researchers created a digital replica of the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Museum visitors will no longer be greeted by a giant 10,000-year-old skeletal rear end when they walk in. Instead, as a museum spokeswoman puts it, they'll see "a little more majestic ...

On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) presented an engaging discussion between Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at SAAM, and Kirk Johnson, the Sant Director of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The time has finally come for the reveal of the Clapp Family Mastodon at the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). The museum has officially invited the community to come meet its ...

A construction project in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that seemed fairly straightforward went awry in the best way possible earlier this month when workers digging a culvert discovered the ancient bones ...