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A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.
In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...
As the mammoth is extinct, it is legal to trade this form of ivory as opposed to that from elephant tusks, which was banned in 1989.
If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...
“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...
Wikimedia Commons/Ammodramus Murray Springs, Arizona In March 1966, archaeologists C. Vance Haynes Jr. and Peter Mehringer Jr. found the Murray Springs site near a steep-walled gulch in southeastern ...