A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting ...

A deer hunter's discovery of a mammoth tusk at a West Texas ranch has prompted several questions, such as "Can I own one?" and "Were mammoths common in the state?" Dr. Aaron Pan, the executive ...

Tusk found 185 miles off the California coast in 2019 and fully recovered in July belonged to a Columbian mammoth, Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers confirmed. Darrin Schultz/MBARI Researchers dove 10 ...

MOSS LANDING, Calif. -- Scientists have found evidence of ancient land dwellers at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute say they discovered a ...

These days, sightings of wild animals in San Francisco — deer, coyotes, even a mountain lion — are big news. But for more than 100,000 years, San Francisco was truly a wild kingdom, one traversed by ...

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 ...

The recent discovery of a mammoth tusk suggests the massive, 10-ton beasts that once roamed Central Texas might’ve made it farther west than we thought. Sul Ross University announced its researchers ...

The woolly mammoth may surprisingly have regularly interbred with a completely different and much larger elephant species, researchers now find. Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) roamed the ...