It’s a venerable American tradition, this mix of science, show business and big hairy pachyderms. The same happy combination drives a new exhibition, “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age,” ...

The University of Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a Facebook post that the 12-day excavation involving staff and local community members yielded "several mastodon bones," primarily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly every state in the U.S. has either an official dinosaur or fossil, and yes, that includes Michigan. Michigan Senate Bill ...

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At more than 10 feet tall and weighing over 11 tons, the American mastodon was found exclusively in the U.S. during the Pleistocene era – its bones being unearthed in every state of the lower 48. To ...

Iowa researchers say they’ve excavated the state’s first well-preserved mastodon, a roughly 13,600-year-old specimen that was found in the southern part of the state. The University of Iowa’s Office ...