The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or possibly as teaching aids to help them produce utensils of their own.

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks. Some of the ...

In addition, the company is actively working toward using a similar process to bring back the woolly mammoth, dodo and Tasmanian tiger. Is the woolly mammoth coming back from extinction? Next on ...