A jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery recently took place in the backyard of a New York home that Michigan residents might quickly recognize. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the ...

LANSING — When it comes to fossils, Michigan missed out on Tyrannosaurus rex and its associates, but the Mitten State came out just fine with its famous Petoskey stones and mastodons.

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...