Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Dive into the mind-blowing biology of the narwhal, the ocean’s most mythical creature. Known for its long, spiral tusk, this marine mammal's biology is far more fascinating than it seems. The ...

The long, spiral tusks of narwhals could be used by these Arctic whales to stun or even kill prey, according to wildlife researchers who have spied on these elusive creatures using drones. They ...

Among the more bizarre aesthetic features found in the animal kingdom is the narwhal’s tusk. Protruding up to 10 feet from the whale’s head, the spiral of ivory has earned these creatures the ...

A fossil hunter was scouring a Mississippi creek for remnants of the past when he came across the discovery of a lifetime — a tusk from an ice age Columbian mammoth.

Mason Kirkland shows the mastodon tusk he and James Gregory discovered in an obscure, unmapped creek in West Feliciana Parish. Kirkland preserved the tusk by tying zip ties around it to keep it ...

The long, straight tusk with spiral indentations was unlike any animal horn known to Europeans. ... Pliny and Marco Polo despite the lack of agreement about what the creature actually looked like.

The hulking creature may have overlapped with Indigenous people. ... Archaeologists visited the site in the fall of 2023 and also discovered a broken tusk protruding from the dirt.

PEOPLE profiles the winners of Prince William's Tusk Awards, which the Prince of Wales handed out in London on Nov. 27. Each of the winners is a champion for wildlife and conservation, and each ...