Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

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 : ...

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 ...

Nearly 90 percent of mammoth ivory exported out of Siberia—estimated at about 60 tons a year—ends up in China, which is also the main destination for illegal elephant ivory.

The demand for ivory has sparked a “mammoth rush” in Siberia thanks to the discovery of preserved tusks and the increasing bans on international trade of elephant ivory. Over the last few year… ...

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.

A collection of 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks may be the earliest evidence of ivory tool production ever found. Previously, the oldest evidence of ivory modification dates ...