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Deer Hunter Stumbles Upon A ‘Very Rare’ Mammoth Tusk On A Ranch In West Texas
A hunter was recently searching for deer on O2 Ranch in West Texas when he stumbled across something strange in a creek bed. He took a photo and showed it to Will Juett, the manager of the ranch, who ...
Courthouse News Service3y
Mexico City’s new airport site declared the largest fossil deposit in Latin America
In September 2020, the more than 200 Columbian mammoth skeletons discovered here earned the site the nickname “Mammoth Central.” The count has risen to over 600 mammoth specimens, making the site the ...
Smithsonian Magazine21d
A Hunter Was Out Looking for Deer in West Texas. He Found a Rare Mammoth Tusk Instead
Texas is a hub for mammoth fossils. Justin Garnett / Center ... the first and only known evidence of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Researchers believe the animals—a group of at least ...
Popular Mechanics20d
A Man Went Deer Hunting and Accidentally Stumbled Upon the Tusk of a Mammoth
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 ...
Las Cruces Sun-News3d
Mammoth tusk found in gravel quarry in New Mexico
“It is probably an Imperial or Columbian Mammoth, which are larger cousins of the more well-known Woolly Mammoth,” said Dunn in the news release. “We lack good stratigraphic data on the east ...