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A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...
A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.
Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...
Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...
To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ...
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Africanews on MSNScientists find way to identify elephant ivory disguised as legal mammoth ivoryLaw enforcements agents are rarely trained to recognise elephant from mammoth ivory. Scientists have found a way to ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNThe World’s Oldest Boomerang Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought, a New Analysis SuggestsResearchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...
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talker on MSNScientists develop new tool to detect illegal elephant ivoryA new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable ...
Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...
Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...
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Study Finds on MSNIce Age Humans Crafted The Oldest Known European Boomerang From Mammoth IvoryIn a nutshell A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it ...
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