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

A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State ...

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

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

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.

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

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

(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 ...

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.