Turns out, the hunter was right. After Juett reported the find to CBBS, a team of anthropology professors and archaeological researchers came to the ranch and swiftly confirmed the fossil was a mammoth tusk . "When they confirmed what they had uncovered, I couldn't believe it," Juett said.

A deer hunter found a mammoth tusk on a West Texas ranch, and the discovery is being analyzed by researchers at a local university.

A routine deer hunting trip in West Texas took an unexpected turn when a hunter unearthed what experts have confirmed to be a mammoth tusk.

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 Presidio counties near Big Bend National park,

While looking for deer on a privately owned ranch in West Texas, a hunter stumbled upon a rare mammoth tusk. […]

I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil,” O2 Ranch manager Will Juett said. “I figured it was likely just an old stump, but imagined how great it would be if he was right.

A rare Columbian mammoth tusk found on a Texas ranch offers new insight into Ice Age giants.