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A Orion looking for cervid on a West Texas ranch or else discover a rare mammoth tusk , researchers say .
The ivory was sit in the drain surface area of a brook bottom on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio county near Big Bend National park , accord to astatementreleased by Sul Ross State University in Texas .
Researchers excavated the rare mammoth tusk at the O2 Ranch in Brewster, West Texas.
Columbian mammoth ( Mammuthus columbi ) , a distant southerly cousin ofwoolly mammoths(Mammuthus primigenius ) , lived on the grassland of what are now North and Central Texas up until around 11,700 years ago , allot to theTexas Master Naturalistswebsite , hosted by Texas A&M University . However , the discovery of mammoth remains in West Texas is very rarefied .
" see that mammoth tusk just take the ancient world to life , " Will Juett , the O2 ranch manager , say in the instruction . " Now , I ca n’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 ivory with only a Isidor Feinstein Stone tool in their hand ! "
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Columbian mammoth coexisted with human until the animals went out at the end of thelast icing age . investigator have propose several potential causes for their defunctness , including clime alteration , hunting by homo and disease , according to Texas Master Naturalists .
The hunter who base the tusk , who is n’t discover in the statement , took photos of the fogey inside the brook bed and showed them to Juett . The ranch director then contactedBryon Schroeder , director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University , and another archeologist . They touch additional research worker and investigated the find .
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Schroeder verified that it was a mammoth tusk , and the investigator spend two twenty-four hour period excavate it from the cattle ranch . They covered the ivory in slip of plaster - cover burlap to protect it and then built a frame to transport it to Sul Ross State University . During the excavation , the researchers did n’t find any other gigantic parts .
" We realized pretty quickly there was not more to the frame , just an isolated ivory that had been distinguish from the rest of the remains , " Schroeder said in the statement .
The investigator are now awaiting the results of carbon dating tests to tell them how old the gigantic tusk is , according to the financial statement .
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