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.

A 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four carved holes found in a cave in Germany was a tool for making ropes, researchers have concluded, not an artwork as previously thought. Read more ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

And it's a sculpture carved from the tusk of a mammoth - it must have been towards the end of the tusk, because it's slim, slightly curved, and it's about eight inches long. The two reindeer swim ...

Everything is bigger in Texas, and on one of the state's largest ranches, a hunter discovered the biggest game yet: the tusk of a mammoth, according to a news release from Sul Ross University on ...

(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 ...