Here, the sun disappears for approximately 65 straight days during the polar night, plunging the town into total darkness. Then, in a dramatic reversal, it does not set for more than two months in ...

The expedition's progress was stopped by pack ice on September 28, 1878, about 1.5 kilometers from the coast at the Chukchi Peninsula at Neshkan, only days from the Bering Strait. The expedition spent ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Vanishing Art of Ivory Carving” in SA Supplements Vol. 85 No. 2217supp (June 1918), p. 409 doi:10.1038 ...

Our aim of this study was to describe the community structures of ichthyoplankton and examine the relationship with environmental conditions in the Bering Sea and Bering Strait, Chukchi Shelf, ...

Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, revealing the stone’s existence, they’re asking the public for help.

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 ...

A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it the oldest known example of such a tool in Europe and possibly the world. The artifact ...

Cocoa prices on Monday recovered from early losses and settled sharply higher as signs of a slowing pace of Ivory Coast cocoa exports sparked short covering in cocoa futures.

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

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 ...