In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

What is a Woolly Mammoth? The woolly mammoth was a very large elephant-like mammal that inhabited the Earth during the Ice Age and is now extinct. It survived in extremely cold conditions and was ...

Traffickers often disguise elephant tusks to look like mammoth ivory, which can be traded legally. Woolly mammoths went extinct in the last glacial period around 10,000 years ago.

Woolly mammoths - which have been extinct for thousands of years - could soon be brought back to life, with scientists setting their sights on 'de-extincting' the ancient elephant species ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell apart ...

By Stephen Beech A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching.