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

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

The undercover also purchased a carved elephant tusk for $31,950; prosecutors said. Manhattan District Attorney's Office. After a joint probe by New York authorities and the Department of Homeland ...

Straight-tusked elephant reconstruction in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, September 9, 2017. The discovery of a complete tusk of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) near ...

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police arrested a person for illegally transporting and attempting to sell two elephant tusks valued at ₹3 crore. The tusks, weighing a total of 5.62 kg, were seized while ...

The discovery of a complete tusk of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel sheds new light on the fascinating life of prehistoric humanity ...

The idea of a gigantic elephant with 8ft (2.5 metre) long tusks may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But such a creature actually roamed Israel 500,000 years ago, according to a new study ...

An elephant tusk thought to date back to when they were hunted by pre-historic humans has been unearthed in the Middle East. The 500,000-year-old and 8ft-long tusk was discovered near Reitan ...

Revadim (Israel) (AFP) – Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday displayed a rare tusk half a million years old, from an enormous now-extinct elephant, which scholars see as testament to a social ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A veterinary dentist came to the rescue of a Sedgwick County Zoo elephant that suffered a broken tusk in a fight with another male elephant.