Excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwestern Germany have again yielded two spectacular 40,000-year-old depictions of birds carved from mammoth ivory. The two figurines are the smallest discovered so far and are the size of a thumbnail, whi...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-ice-age-artists-thumbnail-size.html)

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