The fossil, later confirmed to be from a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), was found on the O2 Ranch in Brewster County, near Big Bend National Park. Mammoths once roamed the grasslands of ...

A routine hunting trip on a West Texas ranch turned into a major scientific discovery when a hunter stumbled upon a rare mammoth tusk lying in the drainage area of a creek bed. The fossil, later ...

A mammoth tusk was the last thing a deer hunter expected to find while walking the grounds of O2 Ranch in western Texas. However, after spotting the object poking out from a creek bed, he informed the ...

“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 ...

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 find was a femur bone attached to a Columbian mammoth, a herd member possibly killed quickly by a cataclysmic event. Researchers discovered remains of 16 Columbian mammoths between 1978 and ...

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 ...

Most notably, the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Waco has yielded remains, including tusks, of more than 20 Columbian mammoths. Two men hunting snakes made the initial discovery there in 1978.

Researchers wrapped the tusk in plaster-covered burlap, which formed a protective cast around the fossil. Photo by Devin Pettigrew / courtesy Center for Big Bend Studies A hunter was looking for deer ...

Most notably, the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Waco has yielded remains, including tusks, of more than 20 Columbian mammoths. Two men hunting snakes made the initial discovery there in 1978.