Conversation Starters: Mystery Mammoth Tusk

In this episode, Mindy and Guy Raz travel to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in the Wow Machine. If you could take a ride in the Wow Machine to anywhere, past, present or future, where would you go? What would you do there?

We learned that scientists can find out a lot about a mammoth by studying their tusks. They can figure out things like what that mammoth was eating and where they were eating it. If scientists studied you what would they find out about what you have been eating?

Scientists used robotic hands to dig up a fossilized mammoth tusk from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. What would you use a pair of super strong robot hands for?