A hunter in West Texas was searching for some deer. Instead, he uncovered a rare fossil from a prehistoric species.

Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in ...

A hunter was out looking for deer at a private ranch in West Texas when he spotted something unusual sticking out of the ...

“Seeing that mammoth tusk just brings the ancient world to life,” Juett said. “Now, I can’t help but imagine that huge animal ...

A hunter on a former 272,000-acre West Texas cattle ranch stumbled upon a fossilized mammoth tusk. The ranch manager was ...

A rare mammoth tusk was unearthed on the O2 Ranch in West Texas. The find was reported in a statement released by Sul Ross ...

The hunter – whose name has not been released – found the tusk in the drainage area of the O2 ranch, near Big Bend National ...

Researchers plan to carbon date the tusk to get an idea of how old it is, Schroeder said. The last time a mammoth tusk was ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

Palaentologists from March have thanked Peterborough fire fighters for donating vital tools used in the extraction of fossils ...

When Director Bryon Schroeder and Archaeologist Erika Blecha arrived at the ranch with other experts, they confirmed that what had been found was not just a fossil, but a mammoth tusk.

Thinking it might be a fossil, photos of his find made their way to researchers at Sul Ross State University. Weeks later, it ...