The Mastodon Project
Hyde Park Mastodon
Cornell's Gilbert Mastodon

Mastodon Matrix Project - learn how you and your schoolgroup can help scientists do research
What IS a mastodon, anyway? - learn about differences between elephants and their extinct cousins

Since August, 1999, PRI, in conjunction with Cornell University, has been involved with three mastodon excavations, one in Hyde Park, NY and another (Cornell's Gilbert Mastodon) in Chemung County, NY. Now, a third mastodon has been located in North Java, NY, and excavations are underway. Click below to find out more about the digs, research currently being done on both sites, and a host of other information

July 19, 2001 - Mastodon Discovered in Western New York!
Click here to see the latest on the North Java Mastodon

Learn about the bones of PRI's Hyde Park Mastodon, featured on the Discovery Channel's "Mastodon in Your Backyard: The Ultimate Guide." And don't miss out on you chance to "own a piece" of the Hyde Park Mastodon. Click here for more details.

Mastodons walking across Ithaca's South Hill, 13,000 years ago

painting by Ithaca artist W.C. Dilger (1952)

 


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