“Collecting and shaping an elephant bone fragment and then using it on multiple occasions to shape and sharpen stone tools ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

A Mississippi man recently made headlines after finding a tusk from a mammoth in a Madison County creek. The complete tusk was estimated to be 10,000-20,000 years old and was a first-of-its-kind ...

From their floppy ears to their giant trunks and massive size, there’s a lot that stands out about the elephant. Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle ...

Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too soft to ...

Since 1989, the international commercial trade of ivory has been banned in an effort to rebuild the dwindling population of elephants and other species poached for their ivory. Although these animals ...