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

Wildfire detection company Dryad Networks demonstrated its first fully functional AI-based drone system for detecting, locating and monitoring wildfires in Germany. Alice Rizzo reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (July 1) that if New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani interferes with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, then "we'll have to arrest him ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although mammoth ivory was claimed as a substitute to elephant ivory, there are several issues with the current methods to differentiate the two ivory, which provided a loophole to laundering and ...

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 ...