A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

There are concerns that this is happening with mammoth and elephant ivories." The post Scientists develop new tool to detect ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Ali, a 34-year-old African elephant who was once on Michael Jackson’s 'Neverland Ranch,' is recovering at the Jacksonville Zoo after undergoing tusk removal surgery. Skip Navigation Share on ...

Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing that the now-extinct creatures had episodes of raging testosterone.

The 2.5 metre-long tusk from the ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is estimated to be around half a million years old and was found in an area where stone and flint tools ...

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 ...