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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 ...

A mammoth tusk was found at a private West Texas ranch, prompting questions like can you own one. A Texas Tech professor ...

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 ...

Team members Erika Blecha, Haley Bjorklund, Justin Garnett and Bryon Schroeder wrap the tusk with strips of plaster-covered burlap that will harden into a cast to protect it during transport.

The only other mammoth tusk that’s been found in the Trans-Pecos region and carbon dated was uncovered ... Some Columbian mammoth bones found at the dig site in Waco, which lies roughly 500 miles east ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...