The tusks were cut from the faces of several hundred dead African elephants. Major ivory busts also took place ... Over the next four days, we came cross three or four elephant-massacre sites ...

Genuine ivory also has "Schreger lines" — small imperfections on the cut-end of the tusk ... averaging about 16 miles a day, to cross the border into Sudan. The tusks stay in Kafia Kingi ...

Inside the fake tusk, I want him to embed a custom-made GPS and satellite-based tracking system. If he can do this, I’ll ask him to make several more tusks. In the criminal world, ivory operates ...

One way of identifying whether a tusk has come from a woolly mammoth or an elephant is by cutting into it and observing the cross patterns ... However, when the ivory is cut into smaller pieces, it ...

By cross-referencing the DNA from an ... Whenever he and his colleagues would investigate a shipment of ivory, they’d try to pair the tusks up and, to cut down on costs, analyze just one from ...

The naturally long and straight ungulate metapodials had been cut, carved, filled, stained, and polished to closely resemble unmodified ivory tusks. Morphological species ... In addition, results ...