NEW YORK— A federal court in New York on Friday upheld the state’s ban on sales and in-store displays of elephant and mammoth ivory and rhino horn — rejecting claims that the ban was unconstitutional.

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 ...

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

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

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.

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 ...

Regional authorities will pay special attention to creating new jobs and registering sole entrepreneurs in Arctic districts of the region, where mammoth ivory production is concentrated ...