At an elevation of 9,000 feet, the fossil was the highest discovered at the time and preserved in ice-cold mud, allowing experts to learn more about the ancient species — the Columbian mammoth.

A massive mammoth skull dating back 40,000 years has been unearthed in Central Texas. The Texas Through Time Fossil Museum in Hillsboro announced the skull of a male Columbian mammoth, a distant ...

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The species found in Texas was the Columbian mammoth, known scientifically as Mammuthus columbi, according to the Texas Master Naturalist website. They are a distant cousin of the woolly mammoth ...