A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State University took the tusk to determine its age. The last tusk that was carbon ...

A hunter looking for a deer at a private ranch in West Texas found something unusual instead: a mammoth tusk. The hunter – whose name has not been released – found the tusk in the drainage ...

few of the elephant relatives ever migrated into West Texas. According to Schroeder, only a single mammoth tusk excavated from the Trans-Pecos region has ever been carbon-dated—and that happened ...

Could it be a mammoth tusk? In West Texas? "I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil," O2 Ranch Manager Will Juett said in a news release.

Researchers confirmed it was a mammoth tusk, “a very rare find in West Texas.” “The tusk was located in the drainage area of a creek bed,” program director Bryon Schroeder said in the ...

MARFA, Texas – Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure trove of artifacts frozen in time deep within a West Texas cave, including potentially the oldest intact weapon system ever found in North ...