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 was recently searching for deer on O2 Ranch in West Texas when he stumbled across something strange in a creek bed. He took a photo and showed it to Will Juett, the manager of the ranch, who ...

Researchers carefuly wrapped the tusk in strips of plaster-covered burlap for protection. Devin Pettigrew / Center for Big ...

“I figured it was likely just an old stump.” Columbian mammoths went extinct around 12,000 years ago. Credit: Benji Paysnoe / NPS The investigation began soon after Juett contacted Bryon ...

“Now we can get it down to a narrower range within 500 years.” Some Columbian mammoth bones found at the dig site in Waco, which lies roughly 500 miles east of the most recent discovery in West Texas.

"They were found all over Texas," Pan said. "Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) are the main ones that are here." People who grew up watching the "Ice Age" movies may also be surprised to ...

On March 21, 2025 a Hunter stumbled over a stump in Texas visiting the O2 Ranch. The stump turned out to be a Mammoth tusk buried in a creek bed. In August 2024, Mississippi documented its first ...

Moore, from her perspective as a 12-year employee of the National Park Service, said Waco having a national monument in its ...

Columbian mammoths coexisted with humans until the animals went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Researchers have proposed several potential causes for their extinction, including climate ...

“This achievement demonstrates the feasibility of expressing traits using information learned from the computational analysis of 59 woolly, Columbian, and steppe mammoth genomes ranging from ...