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. ...

A fossilized tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in southern Israel, offering what archaeologists said was a rare ...

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.

Dentist treats broken elephant tusk at Sedgwick County Zoo by: Wil Day. Posted: Oct 28, 2024 / 09:07 PM CDT. Updated: Oct 29, 2024 / 08:12 AM CDT.

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 fossilized tusk from a giant prehistoric elephant that once roamed around the Mediterranean has emerged from an excavation site in southern Israel, offering what archaeologists said was a rare ...