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In 2015, archaeologists working at a cave in southwestern Germany found an enigmatic perforated baton in a cave called Hohle Fels. It was a near-perfect match for an artifact found in 1983 in a cave down the road. Carved from single pieces of mammoth ivory, the Hohle Fels baton—roughly 20 centimeters long, about the length of a large paperback book—had multiple holes with spiraling grooves around the openings. Similar objects have been found elsewhere in Germany and in nearby France, often made from ivory or antler. They date from the last ice age, more than 35,000 years ago, a time...

The chef and co-owner of a Toronto restaurant named “Antler” has shown the world a new way to deal with vegan protesters. After days of being bothered by strict vegetarians hanging around outside his establishment, he brought part of a deer carcass to the front window and carved it in front of them. A Toronto based site called blogTO reported: Toronto restaurant shocks vegans protesting meat Animal rights activists were horrified this weekend when the co-owner of a Dundas West restaurant they’d been protesting for weeks staged what appeared to be a counter-protest of his own. The restaurant in question,...

RICHMOND , Va., - A freshman member of Virginia's House of Delegates said his first piece of legislation, a bill allowing for ownership of shed deer antlers, passed 95-1. Delegate James Edmunds, R-60th District, said he introduced HB1283, which allows for the "possession of shed antlers" without a special permit, after discovering he was technically breaking the law by taking the antlers from his property to use as decorations in his General Assembly building office, The (Norfolk ) Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday. Edmunds said the Code of Virginia included language banning ownership of "any wild bird or wild animal or the...

Prized for their impressive antlers, red deer have been caught in the hunters' sights for generations. But a deer's antlers are much more than decorative. They are lethal weapons that stags crash together when duelling. John Currey, from The University of York, UK, has been intrigued by the mechanical properties of bone for over half a century and has become fascinated by the mechanical properties of antler through a long-standing collaboration with Tomas Landete-Castillejos at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. 'Antlers look as if they are dry,' says Currey, 'but no one knew if they really are dry when used...