Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to decimate elephant populations. An international ban exists on the ivory trade, and ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell apart ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary trove of stone and mammoth ivory tools deep within a frozen layer of Alaskan soil. The extraordinary find not only features the oldest ...

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, especially ...

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths. The Paleolithic titans were just one animal that made survival in ...

The route taken by the first people to reach the Americas has long divided archaeologists. Coastal migration by boat or an ...

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 ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

The woolly mammoth’s extinction remains one of paleontology’s most contested questions. Most mainland populations vanished between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. A small population persisted on Wrangel ...

New research on a 14,000-year-old soil layer in Alaska uncovered stone and mammoth ivory tools. The find offers the oldest examples of human-made tools ever discovered in North America. The discovery ...