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 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 ...

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

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

The Columbian mammoth was the most likely mammoth species populating what is now Texas. Related to the woolly mammoth, the Columbian variety—which could have formed when woolly mammoths mated ...

The Columbian mammoth was the most likely mammoth species populating what is now Texas. Related to the woolly mammoth, the Columbian variety—which could have formed when woolly mammoths mated ...

Established in 2015, the monument encompasses the first and only known evidence of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Researchers believe the animals—a group of at least six adult females and ...

As the Smithsonian reported, there’s even a Waco Mammoth National Monument, five acres of protected land established in Central Texas in 2015 to highlight the only known evidence of a nursery herd of ...