She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected] Bones of mammoths butchered for their ivory tusks 25,000 years ago were unearthed by ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...

A partial mammoth tusk and other fossils were discovered ... which are larger cousins of the more well-known Woolly Mammoth,” said Dunn in the news release. “We lack good stratigraphic data ...

My next thought is always about the people that faced those huge tusks with only a stone tool in their hand!" Columbian mammoths coexisted with humans until the animals went extinct at the end of ...

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 ...

ideally narrowing the date of the tusk to a 500-year range. The Columbian mammoth was the most likely mammoth species populating what is now Texas. Related to the woolly mammoth, the Columbian ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said his ...

Most notably, the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Waco has yielded remains, including tusks, of more than 20 Columbian mammoths. Two men hunting snakes made the initial discovery there in 1978.

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 ...