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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted ... "They're not as fuzzy as the woolly mammoths that you typically see in Ice Age films, but it was typically ...

Less hairy than the woolly variety, the Columbian mammoth was prominent in the southern half of North America, which included Texas. The Columbian mammoth was an herbivore, so the tusks were often ...

Sul Ross University announced its researchers have confirmed an unusual find: a mammoth tusk on a ranch in the Trans Pecos ...

According to Live Science, the hunter was exploring the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties near Big Bend National Park when he spotted a mammoth tusk lying in the drainage area of a creek bed.

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...