The mastodon skeleton that was unearthed in Kent County in 2022 will soon be on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum.

New York State Museum A nearly complete mastodon skeleton dating to 8,000 B.C. was found in Orange County in 1972. It's named Sugar.

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A mastodon is a prehistoric elephant that went extinct during the last ice age. "This mastodon is at least over 11,000 years old," said Cory Redman, science curator at Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

The mastodon is named Conway after Newton S. Conway, who unearthed it on a farm in western Ohio in 1887. Horse-drawn carriages once carted the skeleton around to county fairs in Ohio.

Mastodon State Historic Site is divided into two sections by Seckman Road. Access to the museum and the bone bed is on West Outer Road. The entrance to the picnic area if off of Seckman Road.

PRI also unearthed a third mastodon skeleton from a pond in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. The skeleton was finally located in the bottom of the pond on August 21.