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 out looking for deer at a private ranch in West Texas when he spotted something unusual sticking out of the ...

ALPINE, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- A routine hunting trip in West Texas took an unexpected turn when a deer hunter stumbled upon what he believed to be a fossil. That discovery, made at the O2 Ranch, a ...

ALPINE, Texas — It's not every day you find a prehistoric fossil anywhere, let alone in Texas. This is exactly what happened to a deer hunter visiting the O2 Ranch, a privately owned ranch in Brewster ...

While hunting in West Texas, a deer hunter spotted a strange object in a creek bed. Suspecting it might be a fossil, he took a photo and showed it to a ranch manager. “I was skeptical,” O2 Ranch ...

A hunter searching for deer instead made a discovery of what he thought was a fossil, located in a drainage area of a creek on O2 Ranch in West Texas. “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of five researchers went to the 02 Ranch and uncovered the fossil. Justin Garnett/CBBS Will Juett had doubts when a hunter told him they’d found something on the 02 Ranch even more rare than a ...

Researchers from the Center for Big Bend Studies (from left) Erika Blecha, Haley Bjorklund, Justin Garnett and Bryon Schroeder wrap the tusk with strips of plaster-covered burlap that will harden into ...