The demand for ivory has sparked a “mammoth rush” in Siberia amid the discovery of preserved tusks of woolly mammoths and the increasing bans on international trade of elephant ivory.

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Wildlife forensic scientists in China suggest that authorities can differentiate elephant ivory from mammoth ivory by analyzing stable isotopes (forms of an element that don’t break down over ...

A mammoth task: stable isotope analyses as a tool to prevent illegal trade of elephant ivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 2025; 13 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1533703 Cite This Page : ...

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks.

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 ...

Both babies were buried with precious items: a necklace hung with snail-shell pendants for the newborn and a string of mammoth-ivory beads for the twin who survived for longer. A third boy, a ...