2009-10-05 - Denver, United States. Kim Posey
Two teenagers made a significant scientific discovery in a creek bed Ken Caryl Ranch. Tyler Kellett and Jake Carstensen found a jaw bone and tusk of a mastodon. The elephant relative could be 50,000 to 150,000 years old. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science excavated the site and volunteers will preserve the fossils. "It's exciting and one of the best things that's ever happened to me,"" said 13 year old Kellett. "It's expensive to do, but I hope we can find more and keep digging," said Carst...
2009-10-04 - Erie, United States. ROBB FREDERICK
The tusks on the giant dino elephant at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center are 10 feet long. Each of the teeth weighs 15 pounds. The feet come up to Scott McKenzie's knee. "This is going to excite the 8-year-old child in everyone who sees it," said McKenzie, the curator of Mercyhurst College's annual Sincak Natural History Exhibit, which opens Monday and continues through Nov. 20.
2009-10-04 - Chicago, United States.
Coming next March to the Field Museum will be a perfectly preserved, 40,000-year-old baby, a little wooly mammoth found on the tundra of northern Siberia by two sons of a reindeer herder. Baby mammoth Lyuba drowned in a mudhole and was soon frozen in the soil which protected her for 40,000 years. Though she's a wooly mammoth, the years eroded the wool, but otherwise she's intact, right down to the food still in her stomach, mostly remnants of mothers milk though that would have soon been changin...
2009-10-02 - Jakarta, Indonesia.
An elephant fossil of 200,000 years old found in Indonesia in April went on display Tuesday, the Kompas.com news portal reported Wednesday. "The elephant fossil is more than 200,000 years old, the largest and the most complete one found in Indonesia," Head of Indonesian Geology museum Yunus Kusumabrata said. The Jurassic elephant was predicted to have a weight of 10 tons with a length of 5 meters from head to the tail and a height of up to 4 meters from the ground, he said.
2009-10-02 - Denver, United States.
It's a dinosaur-loving kids dream come true - not to mention that of archaeologists. The chance discovery of a rare fossil American Mastodon tusk and partial jawbone with teeth by youngsters in Ken-Caryl hasis creatinga major scientific stir. Mastodon fossils, unlike wooly mammoths, are a rare find in Colorado. According to an account on the Ken-Caryl Ranch. org, Web site 13-year-old friends Jake Carstensen and Tyler Kellett were exploring June 1 after a period of heavy rain along a stream swoll...
2009-09-22 - Stromsburg, United States. Adam Lefkoe
It is the job of archaeologists to uncover and study ancient artifacts. Some search for years for the ultimate discovery. It did not take that long for one Central Nebraska man. But he is not an archaeologist, he is a mechanic. This guy is pretty excited and he has every reason to be. He was working in a sand and gravel pit when he came across a piece of history. It is one that dates back thousands of years.
2009-09-22 - Waverly, United States. MATT HICKS
The Susquehanna River Archaeological Center is all about making history come alive, and on Monday co-founder Ted Keir did just that with his presentation of the Newton Mammoth that was excavated near Wyalusing in the mid-1980s. Walter and Jane Newton owned the 58-acre impoundment that housed Spring Lake, and had plans to make it a more suitable recreational area by deepening the body of water and installing an island in the middle for waterfowl propagation, said Keir. When work began in 1983, ho...
2009-09-21 - York, United States. Kate Burke
Seth Staehr knows what it is, it’s a tooth, a grinding tooth, a worn, ancient tooth. But he still can’t believe it. Staehr works for Overland Sand & Gravel. Ordinarily he’s at the Stromsburg location, where he works as a mechanic. When he’s needed, however, he runs the payloader at different locations. In May, he was at the new Phelps pit, a few miles south of the I-80 Waco interchange.
2009-09-05 - Grevena, Greece.
A fossil mastodon tusk found in the northern Greek region of Grevena was officially entered into the Guiness Book of Records on Saturday as the largest ever found. The tusk is truly mammoth at 5.02 metres in length, dates back three million years and belongs to the extinct mastodon species Mammut borsoni. The previous record for the world's largest tusk was also held by a tusk found in the Grevena region in 1997, with a length of 4.39 metres.
2009-09-01 - Las Vegas, United States. ERICA SHEN
In a desert wash that was once teeming with water, full of luscious plants and home to such animals as bison, camels and mammoths, they have identified hundreds of sites rich in fossils in an area north of the city. Two mammoth vertebrae were found at the dig.
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