Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hunting party poses with Shane Meisel’s musk ox. The musk ox looks like he might have been chiseled out of the veined rock of ...

If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox.

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