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 ...

West Texas has made national headlines several times in 2025. Typically, media coverage leans more negative, but this year, a few reports have taken a positive turn. Not too long ago, a new plant ...

They also built a frame to get the large tusk back to the lab. According to Schroeder, the last time mammoth remains were found in West Texas was in the 1960s in the town of Fort Stockton.

A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant ...

In fact, just this last December, a West Texas hunter’s day out turned prehistoric when he noticed something peculiar in a dry creek bed. Thinking it might be a fossil, photos of his find made their ...

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 ...

Two days of excavation work confirmed that the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a prehistoric creature that roamed the grasslands of Texas more than 11,000 years ago. Now, researchers are ...