A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus set sail, a ...

Woolly mammoths last roamed the Earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks—fashioned into sculptures, jewelry, and trinkets—have become hot commodities in China, where elephant ivory is now banned.

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct tools and other items. Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date ...

It sounds like something straight out of an adventure novel. A piece of buried treasure on a sunken ship leads a group of intrepid researchers to a groundbreaking discovery with modern-day ...

Tanzanian authorities announced on Monday that they had seized 1.4 tons of elephant tusks and arrested a group of major international ivory dealers in Dar es Salaam, the country’s largest city. The ...

Elephant poaching is rampant throughout Africa. Unfortunately, Western nations have exacerbated the problem by banning the sale of ivory. Elephants are dying as a result. The West should reopen the ...