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 ...

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.

First, the rarity and difficulty of obtaining woolly mammoth bones, tusks, and ivory increased its value to collectors and enthusiasts. Second, these remnants give us insight into the past and shed ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal ...

VITEBSK DISTRICT, 7 August (BelTA) - A 3-meter mammoth tusk discovered in the Shalygi industrial quarry of Vitebsk District likely belonged to a large adult specimen, Denis Yurchak, the chief ...

Woolly mammoths are depicted in this illustration. (Illustration by Mauricio Anton/Wikimedia Commons) Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing ...

Rebecca Woods received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of ...