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2 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Skull and Tusks Unearthed in Chile

Now that's some mammoth discovery. The skull and tusks of a 2 million-year-old elephant relative -- a mastodon -- have been unearthed in Chile. Construction workers building a hydroelectric power plant near the Chilean capital of Santiago dug up 4-foot-long, 6-inch-wide tusks as well as the first complete mastodon skull...

Prehistoric Fossils Found in Tennessee Backyard

(Jul. 4) -- Jim Leyden was waiting for word on the installation of his new backyard pool when he received a startling phone call. "My wife called and said, 'You're not going to believe it... They found a dinosaur," Leyden told Memphis' WMC-TV. In fact, while digging 8 feet beneath Leyden's Brighton, Tenn., backyard on...

Mammoth Fossil Site Opens to Public

WACO, Texas (Dec. 7) -- A site where dozens of prehistoric mammoths died in a landslide and flooding about 68,000 years ago has opened to the public in Waco, Texas. The fossils were discovered in 1978 by two men looking for arrowheads and fossils, according to the site's Web site. They took one of the bones to a Baylor...