Recently while out on a ranch in West Texas, a hunter looking for deer found something much, much rarer.
When researchers made their way out to the O2 Ranch, they found it not just an old stump as Ranch Manager Will Juett thought it to be, but the tusk of a Trans-Pecos mammoth, just the SECOND artifact ever discovered of the creature!
Juett told MySA.com after researchers from the Center for Big Bend Studies (CBBS) at Sul Ross State University visited the ranch and confirmed the discovery, "It paid off big time. When they confirmed what they had uncovered, I couldn't believe it."
CBBS Director Dr. Bryon Schroeder said the tusk was a "very rare" find, and that the last time the last time a tusk was found in Texas was in Fort Stockton in the 1960s.
Juett said, "Seeing that mammoth tusk just brings the ancient world to life. Now, I can't help but imagine that huge animal wandering around the hills on the O2 Ranch. My next thought is always about the people that faced those huge tusks with only a stone tool in their hand!"
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