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 ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

When the unnamed hunter discovered something unusual in the drainage area of a creek bed, he snapped a picture a brought it to ranch manager Will Juett, who was skeptical when the hunter said he ...

The hunter took photographs of the fossil and presented them to the ranch manager, Will Juett. Initially skeptical, Juett thought the object might be an old stump. "He told me he found something ...

A hunter at the O2 Ranch came back to the ranch manager, Will Juett, with a photo rather than a 10-point buck. “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a ...

“I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil,” Will Juett, manager at O2 Ranch, said in the statement. “I figured it was likely just an old ...

When Will Juett, the ranch’s manager, saw the hunter’s photo of the tusk, he was initially skeptical. “I figured it was likely just an old stump,” Juett says in a statement. But, Juett adds, he also ...

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What we know: Ranch manager Will Juett contacted researchers at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. Dr. Byron Schroedor said the discovery of a mammoth tusk was very rare in West Texas.