Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said there have been previous suggestions that Neanderthals may have dug graves for their dead and some graves of babies at sites in Syria and Israel include the remains of animal horns — but the new discovery seems far more deliberate. (newscientist.com)
Anything from a ceramic soup spoon to a honed animal horn to a piece of polished jade will do the trick. (celluliteinvestigation.com)
Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor. (businessinsider.com)