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 ...

(Courtesy of Sul Ross State Unive / Sul Ross State University/Center) A hunter looking for a deer at a private ranch in West Texas found something unusual instead: a mammoth tusk. The hunter ...

A rare mammoth tusk was unearthed on the O2 Ranch in West Texas. The find was reported in a statement released by Sul Ross State University. Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), to which the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure trove of artifacts frozen in time deep within a West Texas cave, including potentially the oldest intact weapon system ever found in North America.

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology ...

Team members Erika Blecha, Haley Bjorklund, Justin Garnett and Bryon Schroeder wrap the tusk with strips of plaster-covered burlap that will harden into a cast to protect it during transport.

A West Texas hunter found a mammoth tusk on a ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties. Researchers from Sul Ross State University took the tusk to determine its age. The last tusk that was carbon ...

The Lubbock Lake National Landmark offers trails, a museum, and is an active archaeological dig site people can visit for ...