A hunter searching for deer in West Texas stumbled upon what was originally thought to be a stump - but turned out to be an ultra-rare fossil. The hunter was visiting O2 Ranch, one of the largest ...

A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State University took the tusk to determine its age. The last tusk that was carbon ...

A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State University took the tusk to determine its age. The last tusk that was carbon ...

(Courtesy of Sul Ross State Unive / Sul Ross State University/Center) A hunter looking for a deer at a private ranch in West Texas found something unusual instead: a mammoth tusk. The hunter ...

A rare mammoth tusk was unearthed on the O2 Ranch in West Texas. The find was reported in a statement released by Sul Ross State University. Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), to which the ...

Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in plaster-soaked burlap strips, Schroeder’s group then constructed a frame around ...

University of Kansas graduate student Haley Bjorklund and Center for Big Bend Studies archaeologist Erika Blecha work carefully to uncover a mammoth tusk recently discovered in West Texas. And it was ...