Templeton was wading through around 3 feet (almost 1 meter) of water in a creek in Madison County on August 3 when he stumbled across a giant tusk partially exposed from the mud bank. The ...

Eddie Templeton found a portion of an Ice Age-era, Columbian mammoth tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County. DEQ’s Mississippi State Geological Survey scientists ...

But this time he found something he never expected, a tusk from a giant mammoth and it's the first of its kind ever documented in the state. "It was exciting," said Eddie Templeton. "I knew it was ...