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 ...

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 ...

The Columbian mammoth was one of the largest land mammals to ever exist, standing up to 14 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing up to 22,000 pounds. Unlike its woolly northern cousin ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk ... huge tusks with only a stone tool in their hand!" Columbian mammoths coexisted with humans until the ...

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 ...