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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The ivory is valuable to researchers, who use the tusks to track mammoth growth rates, seasonal eating and drinking patterns and migration trends based on the types of plants the animal was eating.

Prehistoric mammoth-ivory artifacts challenge experts to explain their use Pieces on the left, dated to around 400,000 years old, look similar to pieces on the right, around 120,000 years old.

Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered a set of ivory tools which scientists believe dates back nearly 400,000 years, about 280,000 years earlier than previously thought.