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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A hunter on a former 272,000-acre West Texas cattle ranch stumbled upon a fossilized mammoth tusk. The ranch manager was skeptical of the claim at first, thinking it was a stump, but brought the ...