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A Mississippi man recently made headlines after finding a tusk from a mammoth in a Madison County creek. The complete tusk was estimated to be 10,000-20,000 years old and was a first-of-its-kind ...

Ivory, historically prized for carvings and jewelry, is now central to ethical debates due to poaching and endangered species ...

On the north side of Denver abides the city of Commerce City. There, last fall, U. S. officials dumped millions of dollars worth of ivory tusks, carvings, and jewelry into a steel rock crusher and ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating.

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

Since 1989, the international commercial trade of ivory has been banned in an effort to rebuild the dwindling population of elephants and other species poached for their ivory. Although these animals ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...