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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Less hairy than the woolly variety, the Columbian mammoth was prominent in the southern half of North America, which included Texas. The Columbian mammoth was an herbivore, so the tusks were often ...

According to Live Science, the hunter was exploring the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties near Big Bend National Park when he spotted a mammoth tusk lying in the drainage area of a creek bed.