Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, ...

They were called the ivory wars. In the 1980s, at least 700,000 elephants, and possibly as many as 1 million, were slaughtered throughout Africa, killed by hunters and poachers for their ivory tusks, ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable isotope analysis developed by wildlife forensic scientists can tell apart ...

It’s the elephant in the room. Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and ...

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...