tusks

They include figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin's rulers, and an ivory mask.

Poaching animals, collecting their skins, horns, tusks, or other body parts, and selling them is a serious threat to many endangered animals, and even some kinds of plants.

In 2020, a group of explorers looking for mammoth tusks in eastern Siberia made a surprising discovery – the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten.

African elephants face threats from poachers, with thousands of them illegally killed each year for their tusks.

Mammoth teeth and tusks are among the items discovered on a new dig at a site that inspired a Sir David Attenborough documentary.