The transnational trade of modern ivory is banned in a bid to protect elephants, but the trade of ancient mammoth tusks is not. However, telling the difference between illegal elephant ivory and ...

The itching usually strikes when he’s on the verge of finding what he’s looking for: the ivory tusks of a mammoth. The shaggy giants that roamed northern Siberia during the late Pleistocene ...

Brett Westwood hears how demand for mammoth ivory is growing. Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on ...

A 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four carved holes found in a cave in Germany was a tool for making ropes, researchers have concluded, not an artwork as previously thought.

When a man brought a massive gold belt buckle to Antiques Roadshow US, no one expected the jaw-dropping revelation that ...

What it is: A face carved out of mammoth ivory Where it is from: The South Moravian region of the Czech Republic When it was made: About 24000 B.C. Related: Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old ...

With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, “ethical ivory” from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market in China. This rush on mammoth ivory is luring a fresh ...

NEW YORK— A federal court in New York on Friday upheld the state’s ban on sales and in-store displays of elephant and mammoth ivory and rhino horn — rejecting claims that the ban was unconstitutional.