A hunter on a former 272,000-acre West Texas cattle ranch stumbled upon a fossilized mammoth tusk. The ranch manager was ...

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

The hunter – whose name has not been released – found the tusk in the drainage area of the O2 ranch, near Big Bend National ...

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

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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 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 ...

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 ...

“Seeing that mammoth tusk just brings the ancient world to life,” Juett said. “Now, I can’t help but imagine that huge animal ...

A West Texas hunter looking for deer in Brewster and Presidio counties found a mammoth tusk instead. The hunter was hunting ...

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