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 ...

The mammoth was likely butchered by early human hunters nearly 15,000 years ago. — -- A farmer near Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently unearthed the skull, tusks and other bones of a mammoth possibly ...

Woolly mammoth and other ice-age bones have been found on a farm in Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley. Professor Jay Van Tassell of Eastern Oregon University’s geology department estimate the tusks found ...

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SPRINGFIELD - An 11-foot-long, 22,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk just wouldn't work in a dorm room, so its discoverer, Judd McCullum, had to settle for becoming a minor celebrity in Illinois ...