While prowling for deer at a private West Texas ranch in late December, a hunter encountered something incredibly rare: the ancient remains of an extinct Ice Age elephant. Will Juett, the manager of ...

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.

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Researchers plan to carbon date the tusk to get an idea of how old it is, Schroeder said. The last time a mammoth tusk was ...

I was skeptical when a deer hunter showed me a picture of what he thought was a fossil,” the ranch manager said. “I figured ...

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Families flocked to the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park and other national parks in Texas last year, new data ...

Houston's Kelvin Sampson is The Associated Press Big 12 coach of the year for the second year in a row and Cougars guard LJ Cryer is the league’s top player after another regular-season conference ...

For the first time since Deion Sanders was hired to be the Buffaloes’ head coach in December of 2022, he won’t have his sons ...

This time next week, the West Virginia Mountaineers will be preparing for their trip to the NCAA Tournament. Without the elite level play of senior guard Javon ...

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