Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in plaster-soaked burlap strips, Schroeder’s group then constructed a frame around ...

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

A hunter recently discovered a rare mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch, leading to the second Trans-Pecos mammoth artifact ever, according to a news release from Center for Big Bend Studies (CBBS ...

Researchers carefuly wrapped the tusk in strips of plaster-covered burlap for protection. Devin Pettigrew / Center for Big ...

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 ...

After Juett reported the find to CBBS, a team of anthropology professors and archaeological researchers came to the ranch and swiftly confirmed the fossil was a mammoth tusk. "When they confirmed ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A hunter recently stumbled across a rare mammoth tusk as he searched for deer at a private West Texas ranch, according to a release from Sul Ross State University’s Center for ...

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 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 ...