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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory using stable isotope analysis. This tool could be used to catch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A boomerang carved from mammoth tusk The mammoth-tusk boomerang is about 72 centimeters long, gently curved, and shaped so that one end is slightly more rounded than the other.