Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in plaster-soaked burlap strips, Schroeder’s group then constructed a frame around ...

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 ...

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

While looking for deer on a privately owned ranch in West Texas, a hunter stumbled upon a rare mammoth tusk. […] ...

Established in 2015, the monument encompasses the first and only known evidence of a nursery herd of Columbian mammoths. Researchers believe the animals—a group of at least six adult females and ...

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 ...

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 ...