tusks

Poaching animals, collecting their skins, horns, tusks, or other body parts, and selling them is a serious threat to many endangered animals, and even some kinds of plants.

In 2020, a group of explorers looking for mammoth tusks in eastern Siberia made a surprising discovery – the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten.

African elephants face threats from poachers, with thousands of them illegally killed each year for their tusks.

Mammoth teeth and tusks are among the items discovered on a new dig at a site that inspired a Sir David Attenborough documentary.

The non-destructive technology, which involves shining a high-energy light at an ivory specimen, can detect small biochemical differences in the tusks from elephants and mammoths.