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 bill that aims to combat ivory trafficking and other animal parts in the commonwealth passed the state House last week and heads to the Senate.

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years old ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncover 400,000-year-old mammoth ivory artifacts in Ukraine. They’re significant and puzzle scientists as to their function as tools or toys.