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 ...

Cast of object in British Museum collections, # Palart.551. British Museum catalogue identifies the original as: "Part of a weighted reindeer antler spear thrower broken across the shaft below the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ivory from illegal elephant ivory. The method is faster and cheaper than ...

40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Boomerang And Human Finger Hint At Mysterious Prehistoric Rituals "If there was a ritual, we should have found such boomerangs all over Europe"... So why haven't we?

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have found a new method to help police distinguish between elephant and mammoth ivory. International trade in elephant ivory was banned by the Convention ...

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, especially ...

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 ...