Texas, Mammoth

Surprising discovery by deer hunter suggests mammoths once roamed West Texas
Sul Ross University announced its researchers have confirmed an unusual find: a mammoth tusk on a ranch in the Trans Pecos region of West Texas. A deer hunter at a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties found and took photos of a large, curved relic, telling the ranch operator he’d come across a fossil.
Deer Hunter Stumbles Upon Mammoth Tusk on Texas Ranch
According to Live Science, the hunter was exploring the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties near Big Bend National Park when he spotted a mammoth tusk lying in the drainage
‘I Couldn’t Believe It.’ Deer Hunter Finds Prehistoric Mammoth Tusk on West Texas Ranch
Although it’s a long way from the Arctic, where most wooly mammoth bones have been found, the Lone Star State was the long-ago home of Columbian mammoths, an even larger species that roamed across North America during the last Ice Age. Columbian mammoth ...
Rare mammoth tusk found on West Texas ranch
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 Presidio counties near Big Bend National park,
West Texas deer hunter uncovers rare mammoth fossil
While prowling for deer at a private West Texas ranch in late December, a hunter encountered something incredibly rare: the ancient remains of an extinct Ice Age elephant. Will Juett, the manager of O2 ranch where the object was found,
‘Old stump’ spotted by deer hunter is actually a mammoth tusk, Texas researchers say
I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil ,” Juett, manager of the 02 Ranch, said in the release. “I figured it was likely just an old stump, but imagined how great it would be if he was right.
Deer hunter stumbles upon rare mammoth tusk in rugged terrain of West Texas
A routine deer hunting trip in West Texas took an unexpected turn when a hunter unearthed what experts have confirmed to be a mammoth tusk.
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MAMMOTH FOUND IN ICE.; Fine Specimen Discovered by Prof. Gilmore in Alaska.
C.W. Gilmore, of the geological department of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., who is with a party of scientists in Central Alaska, that they have discovered a mammoth frozen ...
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Well-preserved Ice Age mastodons found in Peru
Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons ... Mastodons were similar to the also-extinct mammoth but had flatter heads and straighter tusks.
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Rare wooly mammoth found in Romania
The tusk was found in 1956 in a clay pit ... as reported by Gandul. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species that lived during the Ice Age. Woolly mammoths primarily fed on ...
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MAMMOTH FOUND IN GLACIER.; May Figure at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
A mammoth, one of the giant elephants that roamed ... It will be brought down from its present resting place in the pristine blue ice of an Alaskan glacier, left here during the Alaskan fair ...
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Ancient tiny shark species discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park
The identification was made based on fossilized teeth found in Mammoth Cave, in an area known as the Ste. Genevieve Formation, which is estimated to be about 340 million years old. Unlike some of ...
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How creating 'woolly mice' in the lab will bring back the woolly mammoth
Scientists engineered woolly mice to study mammoth traits, raising ethical and ecological concerns about de-extinction.