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A group of poachers last week massacred 89 elephants in one night near the town of Ganba in southern Chad, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in a statement Tuesday. http://phys.org/news282919640.html Biology Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:10:02 EST news282919640 Countries making large seizures of illegal ivory will be required to conduct DNA tests to determine their origin under new anti-trafficking measures adopted on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news282383177.html Biology Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:46:22 EST news282383177 African elephants face the worst crisis since global trade in ivory was banned almost a quarter-century ago, with the risk of extinction rising in worst-hit nations, conservationists said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news281785757.html Biology Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:49:23 EST news281785757 Global conservationists will converge in Bangkok for the start of key endangered species talks on Sunday, as host Thailand faces pressure to curb rampant ivory smuggling through its territory. http://phys.org/news281465867.html Biology Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:57:58 EST news281465867 Surrounded by sculptures carved from the white tusks of African elephants—which are being slaughtered in their tens of thousands—Beijing saleswoman Chen Yu says the ivory trade is thriving. http://phys.org/news281278247.html Biology Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:00:01 EST news281278247 A 14-year study of a nearly 1,000 elephants in Kenya shows an alarming death rate among older males—those with large, valuable tusks—and an acceleration in poaching deaths, the group Save The Elephants said Thursday. http://phys.org/news277632277.html Biology Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:20:01 EST news277632277 Conservationists on Tuesday urged Thailand to end its legal trade in ivory to help curb the slaughter of African elephants by poachers cashing in on their highly-prized tusks. http://phys.org/news277449936.html Biology Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:25:43 EST news277449936 (Phys.org)—Study of a mysterious 100-year-old interactive toy – perhaps the Wikipedia of its day – is painting a vivid picture of Spain's path into the modern world. http://phys.org/news276341925.html Other Sciences Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:43:16 EST news276341925 Malaysian customs have seized 24 tonnes of unprocessed elephant tusks worth almost $20 million, the largest haul in the country to date, officials said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news274439804.html Biology Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:17:01 EST news274439804 Studying the genetic variability of endangered species is becoming increasingly necessary for species conservation and monitoring. But, endangered species are difficult to observe and sample, and typically harbour very limited genetic diversity. Until now, the process of finding genetic markers was time consuming and quite expensive. These obstacles make the collection of genetic data from endangered animals a difficult task to fulfill. http://phys.org/news272741105.html Biology Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:25:16 EST news272741105 Hong Kong customs officers have seized more than a tonne of unprocessed elephant tusks worth around $1.37 million on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Friday. http://phys.org/news272301473.html Biology Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:18:02 EST news272301473 Philippine authorities said Friday they had launched a nationwide investigation into Catholic devotees collecting religious figures made of "blood" ivory smuggled from Africa. http://phys.org/news268062539.html Biology Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:49:04 EST news268062539 Workers have discovered hundreds of bones belonging to Ice Age animals, including mammoths, mastodons and glyptodons, while digging to build a wastewater treatment plant north of Mexico City. http://phys.org/news265600577.html Other Sciences Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:20:01 EST news265600577 Workers digging on the underground network in the western city of Duesseldorf have uncovered a 34-kilogramme (76-pound) woolly mammoth tusk over 10,000 years old, city officials said on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news264767661.html Other Sciences Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:34:26 EST news264767661 A critically-endangered Sumatran elephant has been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province, an official said Wednesday, the second death from suspected poisoning within a month. http://phys.org/news256361378.html Biology Wed, 16 May 2012 04:29:48 EST news256361378 (Phys.org) -- The smallest mammoth known to have ever lived has been identified by Natural History Museum scientists, and is reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B today. http://phys.org/news255751440.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 May 2012 04:07:55 EST news255751440 Sex differences account for some of the most of the spectacular traits in nature: the wild colours of male guppies, the plumage of peacocks, tusks on walruses and antlers on moose. Sexual conflict – the battle between males and females over mating – is thought to be a particularly potent force in driving the evolution traits that differ in males and females. http://phys.org/news255278958.html Biology Thu, 03 May 2012 15:49:28 EST news255278958 Vietnam customs officials on Monday said they had seized more than a tonne of ivory, believed to be from elephant tusks, being smuggled on the country's border with China. http://phys.org/news238681496.html Biology Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:25:01 EST news238681496 A perfectly preserved skull of a mastodon -- a relative of today's elephant -- was found here during excavation work at a water treatment plant, one of the scientists involved in the discovery said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news224911621.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 May 2011 04:27:24 EST news224911621 Thai customs said on Friday they had seized two tonnes of ivory worth over $3.3 million hidden in a shipment of frozen fish -- equivalent to more than 120 elephants killed. http://phys.org/news220873451.html Biology Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:20:02 EST news220873451 Excited archeologists in California are rubbing their hands: after three years' back-breaking work they are finally, painstakingly revealing the face of Zed, the ice age mammoth. http://phys.org/news219645837.html Other Sciences Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:30:01 EST news219645837 Stumped by a ban designed to save elephants from extinction, Hong Kong's master carvers turned to a long dead species that left thousands of tonnes of frozen ivory in Siberian mass graves. http://phys.org/news200921935.html Biology Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:39:10 EST news200921935 Lyuba was not typical of the subjects Jason Polzin examines with X-ray, CT or MRI machines at GE Healthcare. http://phys.org/news186052549.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:50:02 EST news186052549 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State. http://phys.org/news175534654.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:38:38 EST news175534654 (PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have wondered why only males of the rarely seen family of beaked whales have “tusks,” since they are squid-eaters and in many of the species, these elaborately modified teeth seem to actually interfere with feeding. http://phys.org/news148319331.html Biology Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:48:51 EST news148319331