A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

The tusk, which belonged to a female mammoth, is more than 100,000 years old. Skip to main content. ... She holds a B.S. in Zoology and a B.A. in Creative Writing from North Carolina State ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...

The team of researchers believe the tusk is the oldest well-preserved mammoth tusk ever discovered in North America, as initial test of it show it's at least 100,000 years old.

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known mammoth fossil in the region — a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms).

Wooller led a team using chemical isotope data to map the life journey of a single mammoth that lived over 17,000 years ago. A paper on the findings is the cover story in this week's issue of the ...

In a 2021 study, Dr. Wooller and his colleagues analyzed the strontium in a tusk of a 17,100-year-old male mammoth. Kik , as they nicknamed the animal, died far above the Arctic Circle when he was 28.

Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing that the now-extinct creatures had episodes of raging testosterone.

Alaska's Koyukuk River was the site of an interesting discovery. During a float down the river, a group of University of Virginia professors spotted a woolly mammoth tusk along the riverbank. The ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: ...

The tusk Templeton found is so large because it came from a Columbian mammoth, an animal that could grow up to 15 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh in excess of 10 tons.