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A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.
Witness the mesmerizing transformation of a rusted Damascus cleaver into an extraordinary work of art, featuring a brand-new mammoth ivory and brass handle. What happens when an old, poorly ...
Mammoth ivory, dug up in the permafrost, is sometimes used as a legal substitute for elephant ivory. But this leaves a potential loophole for poached elephant ivory to be sold as mammoth ivory ...
Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory using stable isotope analysis. This tool could be used to catch ...
Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...
As the mammoth is extinct, it is legal to trade this form of ivory as opposed to that from elephant tusks, which was banned in 1989.
A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is ...
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cleveland survey, 1993. Image on file. (On right:) VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST-1955 signed The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian ...
The mammoth ivory boomerang was unearthed in Oblazowa Cave in southern Poland. It was originally thought to be about 30,000 years old.
Mixed-media artist Indu Varma of Sackville, N.B., looks at birds from a different perspective.Varma, who grew up in India, has created a 16-piece exhibit called Birds & their Symbolism. It is inspired ...
Mixed-media artist Indu Varma of Sackville, N.B., looks at birds from a different perspective. Varma, who grew up in India, has created a 16-piece exhibit called Birds & their Symbolism. It is ...