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

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

A rare mammoth tusk was unearthed on the O2 Ranch in West Texas. The find was reported in a statement released by Sul Ross ...

“Seeing that mammoth tusk just brings the ancient world to life,” Juett said. “Now, I can’t help but imagine that huge animal wandering around the hills on the O2 Ranch. My next thought is always ...

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

The tusk has been transported to Sul Ross State University for further analysis. They are a distant cousin of the woolly mammoth and lived in the northern parts of North America and Asia.

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

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 ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted ... "They're not as fuzzy as the woolly mammoths that you typically see in Ice Age films, but it was typically ...

Palaentologists from March have thanked Peterborough fire fighters for donating vital tools used in the extraction of fossils ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology and genetic engineering startup valued at $10 billion, has raised $435 ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. “Juett said his great working relationship with the Center for Big Bend Studies (CBBS ...