Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...

To further enable these measurements, we developed a laser fluorination method to reproducibly measure the triple oxygen isotope composition of silica frustules. While the δ13C of the organic matter ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...

Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research ...

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable ...

The team looked in the dead zones for signs of denitrification, which occurs when oxygen content is so low that microbes instead use nitrate to power their biological activity. Nitrogen has two stable ...

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that ...

Anaerobic bacteria were among the first life forms on earth and existed at a time when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. While many organisms ...