Paleontologists are excavating an ancient stegomastodon skull in New Mexico after a bachelor party stumbled upon it.

Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old's clumsiness. Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon -- ...

A group of campers celebrating a bachelor party at a New Mexico state park Monday stumbled upon the fossil of a 3-million-year-old elephant-like creature called a stegomastodon. The Las Cruces ...

Jude Sparks literally stumbled upon this Stegomastodon fossil while playing in New Mexico in November, 2016. New Mexico State University A nine-year-old boy from New Mexico physically stumbled upon a ...

A hike can be a great outdoorsy activity to help distract your mind from the everyday perils of life, but for one family in New Mexico, it meant opening a whole new can of worms. The family, ...

Back in November, 9-year-old Jude Sparks was hiking with his family in New Mexico’s Las Cruces desert when he tripped over something and fell. Jude’s face landed next to what appeared to be a massive ...

A boy’s misstep on a family hike in New Mexico has given the world a prehistoric wonder.Ten-year-old Jude Sparks was on a desert hike in Las Cruces in November when he tripped over what turned out to ...

A 10-year boy has accidentally discovered a rare, mostly intact 1.2 million year-old skull of stegomastodon - a prehistoric ancestor of elephants - while hiking in the Las Cruces desert in the US.