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 ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

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 ...

The ivory is sometimes easier to sell to international tourists than carvings and crafts from living species, shop owners said, because laws to prevent wildlife trafficking between countries are ...

Archaeologists uncover 400,000-year-old mammoth ivory artifacts in Ukraine. They’re significant and puzzle scientists as to their function as tools or toys.

400,000-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Artifacts May Have Been Kids’ Toys But we don't know which species of ancient human made them.

Now that a "de-extinction" company says it has revived the dire wolf species that was extinct for over 10,000 years, could dinosaurs and the woolly mammoth be next? What about the dodo bird? The ...