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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 was recently searching for deer on O2 Ranch in West Texas when he stumbled across something strange in a creek bed.

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 ...

They also built a frame to get the large tusk back to the lab. According to Schroeder, the last time mammoth remains were found in West Texas was in the 1960s in the town of Fort Stockton.

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 ...

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

A deer hunter at a West Texas ranch discovered a rare Mammoth tusk, according to a press release from the Center for Big Bend Studies.

(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 ...