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 ...

Eddie Templeton was wading through a rural Mississippi creek on one of his regular hunts for fossils when he made a mammoth discovery. The avid fossil collector saw a tusk sticking out of the bank of ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

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 ...