Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks. Some of the ...

the rising suspicion is ivory poaching,” he said. Asked why the animals had to be decapitated, he explained that cutting off the head was faster than removing the tusks from the skull ...

However, they are endangered due to habitat loss and poaching, primarily for their ivory tusks; in fact, in the last century, 90% of Africa’s elephants have been wiped out due to how valuable their ...

The launch event took place on Monday, April 7, 2025. The ‘Women in Colour’ initiative goes beyond just technical training; it provides women with a pathway to sustainable income, economic ...

The discovery of a second headless carcass belonging to an endangered pygmy elephant in the forests of Malaysia’s Sabah has raised alarm over a resurgence of ivory ... to tusk dowries in ...

A donation of approximately 300 ivory art objects of exceptional cultural and commercial value, made with African savannah elephant tusks: necklaces, bracelets, pendants, handmade figurines.

We’ll admit it, only to deny it later: We follow Jeep’s ever-changing paint palette with the undue attention some of us secretly devote to reality television. We cheered when not-pink ...

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Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too ...