An amateur fossil hunter discovered the first Columbian mammoth tusk ever found in Mississippi. The 7-foot-long, fully intact tusk was tucked into a bluff near a stream that may have swept away the ...

Miners unearthed a tusk in North Dakota. The discovery of the fossil led experts to find many more. Coleman Fredricks via AP In the middle of the night last May, a coal mining shovel operator spied ...

A Mississippi man recently made headlines after finding a tusk from a mammoth in a Madison County creek. The complete tusk was estimated to be 10,000-20,000 years old and was a first-of-its-kind ...

An amateur fossil hunter found a mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek. Experts said it was the first mammoth tusk found in the state. Mammoth tusks can offer unique insight into their lives, including ...

Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in Mississippi since he was a kid, Templeton has made several stunning extinct mammal finds, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hunter searching for deer instead made a discovery of what he thought was a fossil, located in a drainage area of a creek on O2 ...

A hunter searching for deer instead made a discovery of what he thought was a fossil, located in a drainage area of a creek on O2 Ranch in West Texas. “I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a ...