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

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 ...

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

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ritual by prehistoric humans.The ...

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 ...

Surprisingly Mr Goodban's is not the only elephant tusk to have been found. Another was found off Falmouth in 2019, 110m (361ft) underwater on a Royal African Company trader wreck.

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.

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