From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time.

The narrow end of the powder horn is carved, turned, and colored dark brown. Originally it would have been closed with a peg or stopper, now missing. Credit Line Collection of the Smithsonian National ...

Narendra Modi gifted Indian handicrafts to Ghanaian leaders. The gifts highlighted India's rich artistic traditions. Presents included Bidriware vases ...

Ancient Humans Carved Up Elephant Meat with Small, Yet Sophisticated Stone Tools Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a ...

The carved ivory (?) teeth are prominent. Traces of human hair as a beard and on the back of the head. Provenance Possibly Elias Kum, Isu, Cameroon, before 1968 Paul and Ruth Tishman, New York, by ...

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

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 ...

Once polished or carved, the two types of ivory are difficult to distinguish, and illicit elephant ivory is known to be traded under the guise of legal mammoth ivory to avoid bans. Although ...

Rachakonda police, in collaboration with Forest Range Officials, successfully intercepted an illegal elephant ivory smuggling operation, seizing two ivory tusks and arresting one suspect. The ...

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 ...

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 ...