This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tusk and Sunset A mammoth’s tusk spikes the Siberian sky on Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. Tusks that are discovered with ...

There’s a pair of earrings, for instance, that showcases a network of invisibly connected diamonds; the idea was to display impermanence ... and adds fossilised mammoth tusk.

A woolly mammoth tusk unearthed in a coal mine where it had ... is used to store parts of the Leeds collection not currently on display.

A mammoth tusk discovered during an unusually low tide could be up to 12,000 years old, experts believe. The 6ft (2m) tusk, which was found off the coast of Mersea Island, Essex, dates back to the ...

"It was suspected, based on the strong curvature of the massive tusk that Eddie and the team were dealing with a Columbian ...

TASS/. About 100 tonnes is the annual production of mammoth tusks in Yakutia, where about every third tonne is illegal. TASS tells about how Yakutia’s authorities plan to bring the sector under ...

Mississippi was home to three Proboscideans during the last ice age: Mastodon, Gomphothere, and the Columbian mammoth. All ...

Scientists 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. Male woolly mammoths were thought to reach shoulder heights of ...

In reality, scientists had spotted something unusual off the California coast two years ago: a 3-foot-long mammoth tusk. A research team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered ...

YAKUTSK, June 21. /TASS/. The rush for mammoth tusks should be regulated by federal legislation, as scientists highlight the damage from the illegal production is more than one billion rubles ($17 ...

Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUSK) ("Mammoth" or the "Company") today announced that Arty Straehla has notified Mammoth's Board of Directors of his decision to retire as the CEO of the ...