Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in ...

Moore, from her perspective as a 12-year employee of the National Park Service, said Waco having a national monument in its ...

As the Smithsonian reported, there’s even a Waco Mammoth National Monument, five acres of protected land established in ...

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

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 ...

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“Now we can get it down to a narrower range within 500 years.” Some Columbian mammoth bones found at the dig site in Waco, which lies roughly 500 miles east of the most recent discovery in West Texas.

"They were found all over Texas," Pan said. "Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) are the main ones that are here." People who grew up watching the "Ice Age" movies may also be surprised to ...

Colossal scientists have done a computational analysis of the ancient genetic makeup of 59 woolly, Columbian, and steppe mammoths, ranging from 3,500 to over 1,200,000 years old. That work helped ...

The hunter – whose name has not been released – found the tusk in the drainage area of the O2 ranch, near Big Bend National ...

The Columbian mammoth was the most likely mammoth species populating what is now Texas. Related to the woolly mammoth, the Columbian variety—which could have formed when woolly mammoths mated ...