2009-11-05 - Zhaotong, China.
A team of more than 10 Chinese and foreign archeologists have been examining the mastodon fossil site in Zhaotong prefecture, which consists of at least three complete skeletons, according to a Dushi Shibao report. One of the fossilized tusks found at the site is 2.6 meters long and weighs more than 150 kilograms. The fossil was discovered by local farmers who were digging up brown coal.
2009-11-01 - Crestline, United States.
The Lowe-Volk Park Nature Center was full of the old -- and a little bit of the new -- on Saturday at the opening of the "Ice Age Mammals, Mastodons and More" exhibit. Heather Donnenwirth and her two children, Grayson and Jillian, posed for a photograph by a 174-pound mastodon skull found in Union County.
2009-11-01 - Buffalo, United States. Tom Buckham
Not so fast, New York State Museum. The 9-foot-long Mastodon tusk retrieved from the Hudson Valley a year ago, which you say might be the largest ever found in the state, is not. That distinction evidently belongs to a 10-footer recovered from the Buffalo Museum of Science Hiscock dig in Genesee County in 1997.
2009-11-01 - Montgomery, United States.
The discovery of a 9-foot-long mastodon tusk in Orange County will provide scientists with a new source of information about the prehistoric animal, according to the men who found and helped exhume it. Glen Keeton, an archeologist from Mount Hope who found the tusk last year, and his father, Gary Keeton, talked about the discovery in detail for the first time Saturday during an archeology symposium at Valley Central Middle School. The tusk, the longest ever found in New York, is expected to prov...
2009-10-26 - Lagrange, United States. BOB BRALEY
From the outside it doesn’t look like anything other than an old house. The wood is so old it won’t hold paint, and behind it there are clothes visible hanging from the line. Go inside and you find rooms filled with articles that recall former LaGrange County residents, from pump organs to a wedding dress, from school excuses to china, from Civil War memorabilia to an 18th-century Bible in German. And — oh, yes, there’s the mastodon skull.
2009-10-23 - New York, United States.
Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State. The nearly complete but fragmented tusk, measuring more than 9 feet long, was one of two excavated this past summer in the Black Dirt area of Orange County at the confluence of Tunkamoose Creek and the Wallkill River, on the property of Lester Lain of Westtown
2009-10-21 - Sonora, Mexico. Rex Dalton
Scientists have discovered a site containing the most extensive evidence seen so far in Mexico for the Clovis culture. The find extends the range of America's oldest identifiable culture, which roamed North America about 13,000 years ago. The bed of artefacts in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico also includes the bones of an extinct cousin of the mastodon called a gomphothere. The beast was probably hunted and killed by the Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, who myste...
2009-10-20 - Phayao, Thailand.
The preserved teeth and molars of Hoe tusker, an elephant species that lived 13 million years ago, have won the first best fossil award given by the Mineral Resources Department. The award was inaugurated to raise public awareness of fossils and to educate people about history in the hope of encouraging more discoveries. A cattle raiser discovered the Hoe tusker, known scientifically as Dienotherium, by accident on a mountain in Phayao's Pong district a year ago.
2009-10-13 - Moscow, Russian Federation.
Since long ago dwellers of the Russian North procured seal bones and walrus tusks in the polar seas and gathered fossil mammoth bones on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The bone carvings from Kholmogory were notable for excellent craftsmanship and perfected technique. The best carving masters from Kholmogory were invited to work in the Kremlin's Armoury, which performed orders for the tsar’s court. The unique art of Kholmogory bone carving has existed for more than 400 years. The first archive...
2009-10-11 - Yamal Peninsula, Russian Federation. Luke Harding
It was 15 years ago when Vasily Ivanovich spotted something curious poking out of the side of a lake. Scrambling down a reed-lined bank, the reindeer hunter gently coaxed the object from the mud. "It was a mammoth tusk," Ivanovich said. "It wasn't very big," his wife, Valentina, pointed out. "There are lots of them," she added.
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