A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Rare bones including a mammoth tusk and a pelvis possibly also from a mammoth emerged from a roadway site in southeastern ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory—but selling mammoth ...

But this time he found something he never expected, a tusk from a giant mammoth and it's the first of its kind ever documented in the state. "It was exciting," said Eddie Templeton. "I knew it was ...

MADISON COUNTY, Miss. − A Mississippi man found a tusk from the biggest mammal to ever walk across the state's land: A giant mammoth. The discovery in Madison County is the first giant mammoth ...

An amateur fossil hunter found a mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek. Experts said it was the first mammoth tusk found in the state. Mammoth tusks can offer unique insight into their lives ...

Phillips confirmed the tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant relative of the woolly mammoth. Columbian mammoths lived during the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, making the fossil ...

Eddie Templeton found a portion of an Ice Age-era, Columbian mammoth tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County. DEQ’s Mississippi State Geological Survey scientists ...

Well, as it turns out, the hunter was right. It was a fossil—a rare woolly mammoth tusk, to be precise. In reporting the find, Sul Ross State University stated in a press release: “Juett said ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A hunter recently stumbled across a rare mammoth tusk as he searched for deer at a private West Texas ranch, according to a release from Sul Ross State University’s Center for ...

Artifact and fossil collector Eddie Templeton was "exploring in rural Madison County" when he made the shocking — and historic — discovery Danielle Jennings is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE ...