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

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant ...

Texas is a hub for mammoth fossils. Justin Garnett / Center for Big Bend Studies When the researchers arrived, they confirmed that the hunter’s discovery was indeed the tusk of an extinct mammoth.

A rare mammoth tusk was unearthed on the O2 Ranch in West Texas. The find was reported in a statement released by Sul Ross State University. Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), to which the tusk ...

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 ...

On March 21, 2025 a Hunter stumbled over a stump in Texas visiting the O2 Ranch. The stump turned out to be a Mammoth tusk buried in a creek bed. In August 2024, Mississippi documented its first ...

When Director Bryon Schroeder and Archaeologist Erika Blecha arrived at the ranch with other experts, they confirmed that what had been found was not just a fossil, but a mammoth tusk.

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

Schroeder said the researchers quickly verified that it was a mammoth tusk, a very rare find in West Texas. “The tusk was located in the drainage area of a creek bed,” Schroeder said.

The hunter’s instincts were right: It was a fossil, the university said. Researchers confirmed it was a mammoth tusk, “a very rare find in West Texas.” “The tusk was located in the ...

A deer hunter recently discovered a mammoth tusk at O2 Ranch, a privately owned ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. (Couretsy Photo) ALPINE Although he was searching for deer, a hunter at the ...