Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Have you ever seen a group of narwhals gather, such as they are in the above ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... its value comes largely down to cultural status and scarcity. The difficulty of hunting an elephant in older times — accompanied ...

Tusks are measured by weight ... “The shooting is the last 5 percent of an elephant hunt,” Marnewecke said. “I feel quite shitty when an elephant dies, but those elephants pay for the ...

Further complicating the issue is that illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth ... I’ve arrived at this place, Muus Khaya, with a tusk-hunting boss who captains his boat from atop a 900-pound ...

Trophy hunting advocates fear that a similar fate ... and you’re in the middle of it.” The elephant’s tusks, which will hang on Sitterle’s wall in Texas one day, were an important part ...

In 1975, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species banned ivory trading; however illegal tusk hunting still continues. Now hunters cut the elephant tusks to take ivory, but the ...

One elephant managed to escape, but the other, a tusker, got its left tusk stuck on the lorry. Fortunately, the collision wasn’t head-on, so the tusker ran toward a small forest patch on the other ...