Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...