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 ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ivory from illegal elephant ivory. The method is faster and cheaper than ...

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 ...

Traders dig up their tusks from under the Siberian permafrost. Elephant and mammoth tusks might look the same to the untrained eye, but ivory from the extinct prehistoric animal is of lower quality.

Mammoth ivory, dug up in the Siberian permafrost, is sometimes used as a legal substitute for elephant ivory. However, this leaves a loophole for poached elephant ivory to be sold as mammoth ivory, as ...

We acquired unworked mammoth ivory fragments from Siberian carvers, and additional mammoth ivory objects purchased between 2022 to 2024 in markets in China (Shanghai) and Hong Kong (Supplementary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.