A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature ...
The bead was made from a tusk shell cut into a ring. It was about 1.3 centimeters long and is believed to be from the late Paleolithic Period about 23,000 years ago. Researchers further examined ...
After the identification, the team faced the delicate task of preserving the ancient mammoth tusk for further examination.