A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

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 ...

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

Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ...

Law enforcements agents are rarely trained to recognise elephant from mammoth ivory. Scientists have found a way to ...

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

A 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 ...