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 ...

Then, at 6.7 million years ago, the Asian elephant and the mammoth also go their separate ways. Human comparison "The cool thing about the mastodon is that we know pretty exactly from the fossil ...

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

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering ...

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.

To tackle this, Colossal analyzed 59 woolly, Columbian, and steppe mammoth genomes ranging from 3,500 to over 1.2 million years old, and used computational analysis to compare a data set of 121 ...

The demands of the modern trade in elephant ivory have caused African elephant populations to drop by more than 80% in the last century, leading to bans on the trade and sale of elephant ivory ...

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

More information: A mammoth task: Stable isotope analyses as a tool to prevent illegal trade of elephant ivory, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1533703 Journal ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering ...

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 ...

The research team tested 79 pieces of ivory, 44 identified as elephant ivory and 35 identified as mammoth ivory. Some were seized by Hong Kong law enforcement while others were bought from carvers ...