A man who was exploring in Madison County, Mississippi, found a 7-foot, Ice Age-era Columbian mammoth tusk before scientists arrived to evaluate the rare discovery.

Mississippi’s First Mammoth Tusk Spotted By Amateur Fossil Hunter Mammoths mostly left what would become the Magnolia state to their distant mastodon cousins, but this one apparently made an ...

The region of North America that would become the state of Mississippi was once home to the mastodon, gomphothere and the Columbian mammoth, according to MDEQ.