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

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

A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State ...

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

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 ...

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 found in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas was in the 1960s, roughly a decade ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A hunter recently stumbled across a rare mammoth tusk as he searched for deer at a private West Texas ranch, according to a release from Sul Ross State University’s Center for ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted several questions, such as "Can I own one?" and "Were mammoths common in the state?" Dr. Aaron Pan, the executive ...

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

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

(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 ...