A hunter searching for deer instead made a discovery of what he thought was a fossil, located in a drainage area of a creek on O2 Ranch in West Texas. “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a ...

Researchers carefuly wrapped the tusk in strips of plaster-covered burlap for protection. Devin Pettigrew / Center for Big Bend Studies A hunter was out looking for deer at a private ranch in West ...

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 ...

A hunter searching for deer in West Texas stumbled upon what was originally thought to be a stump - but turned out to be an ultra-rare fossil. The hunter was visiting O2 Ranch, one of the largest ...

The mammoth was likely butchered by early human hunters nearly 15,000 years ago. — -- A farmer near Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently unearthed the skull, tusks and other bones of a mammoth possibly ...

Woolly mammoth and other ice-age bones have been found on a farm in Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley. Professor Jay Van Tassell of Eastern Oregon University’s geology department estimate the tusks found ...