Two Mississippi teens went to a creek to cool off and stumbled across a jaw of a mastodon, an animal that went extinct more ...

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This includes the American mastodon, gomphothere (Cuvieronius), and the Columbian mammoth. The newly found fossil was donated earlier this month to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.