The Mexican drug cartels might be smuggling narcotics into the U.S. inside cattle, according to a number of sources.

As the old saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas. That is true with some animals native to the lone star state ...

The Odessa Police Department is alerting the public to an internet scam involving the fraudulent sale of Dachshund puppies.

Thinking it might be a fossil, photos of his find made their way to researchers at Sul Ross State University. Weeks later, it was confirmed. The fossil was indeed an ancient mammoth tusk – a very rare ...

Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in ...

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

The Columbian mammoth was an herbivore, so the tusks were often used to dig up plant roots or strip bark off trees. Of course, males used the tusks as weapons, especially in the fight over females.

From the moment Steve Young canceled the Milam County Junior Livestock Association show, his days as county judge were ...