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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...