A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old
This left distal phalanx was discovered not far from the massive tusk boomerang. Credit: Talamo et al. 2025 What about the human thumb? The human thumb-bone (or left distal phalanx,…
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40,000-year-old mammoth tusk boomerang is oldest in Europe — and possibly the world
2 views of a boomerang constructed out of massive ivory that was found in Obłazowa Cave in Poland. (Image credit: Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0) An uncommon…
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Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Anti-extinction vs. de-extinction Communities are inconveniently complicated, and elephants will not make great surrogates. Are we all set for mammoths when we can’t manage existing human-pachyderm disputes? Credit: chuchart duangdaw…
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Rare mammoth tusk found on West Texas ranch
A hunter trying to find deer on a West Texas cattle ranch rather found an unusual massive tusk, scientists state. The tusk was being in the drain location of a…
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