Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age Europe, ...

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest tool of its kind in the world, archaeologists said. The tusk was found along ...

There’s something almost magical about the way boomerangs arc through the air and return to the hand of the thrower. Watching them cut through the sky on their wide trajectories can provide endless ...

He throws it into the sky as art, and it comes back as science. Local artist Chris Lohan says a boomerang is both: a curved, sleek figure in the sky one moment and a restful slab of wood in his hand ...