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. Read more ...

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 ...

Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky ... She spent two months on the island to document the hunt for ancient ivory. “They can’t sell the skull,” she says of the tusk ...

An upper incisor belonging to a woolly mammoth has been discovered in a ravine in the commune of Săpoca, Buzău County, in ...

where mammoth ivory production is concentrated, Safronov pointed out. The decline in procurement prices for mammoth tusks is the chief dilemma now, the official noted. "Prices are at their lowest ...

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 ...

YAKUTSK, June 21. /TASS/. The rush for mammoth tusks should be regulated by federal legislation, as scientists highlight the damage from the illegal production is more than one billion rubles ($17 ...

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 ...

Brett Westwood hears how demand for mammoth ivory is growing ... can work out a woolly mammoth's age from the rings of its tusk in a similar way to judging a tree’s age from its rings.

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had been buried for thousands of years has been carefully conserved during an unusual clean-up job. Belonging to the long extinct Ice Age ...

Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUSK) ("Mammoth" or the "Company") today reported financial and operational results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. Mammoth Energy Services ...