Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to decimate elephant populations. An international ban exists on the ivory trade, and ...

MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - A mammoth discovery was made by scientists in Mississippi on Friday. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) said geological survey ...

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths. The Paleolithic titans were just one animal that made survival in ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...

Eddie Templeton was wading through a rural Mississippi creek on one of his regular hunts for fossils when he made a mammoth discovery. The avid fossil collector saw a tusk sticking out of the bank of ...

A mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland is approximately 42,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest known boomerang in the world and challenging previous understandings of early human ...

This Damascus cleaver is transformed into a true masterpiece with a stunning mammoth ivory and brass handle. The restoration ...