He also works with fossilized walrus tusks. Last year, the Obama administration put an almost complete ban the commercial trade of African elephant ivory in the U.S.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died ...

Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scrimshaw with the etchings of local artists on fossilized walrus and mammoth ivory. But if a bill to ban the sale of ivory becomes law this year, she worries ...

Federal law prohibits sales of African elephant ivory, but six states have now banned the sale of ivory more broadly. That has repercussions for Alaska Native ivory carvers, who use tusks from ...

There’s no denying it: Diamonds are divine. But when it comes to exceptional jewelry, few materials surpass fossilized dinosaur bone. A touch of fossilized walrus ivory is rather singular, too ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus isn't the usual kind of artifact to hang above the mantel.

Ivory was a major luxury commodity used to make a variety of products such as jewelry and tools across Europe during the medieval era.

What’s more, in January 2024, the walrus to which that fossilized skull belonged was officially recognized as a new species, and it was named after the teen (now adult) who found it.

Strict bans on ivory trade are aimed at preventing elephant poaching. But the measures are causing unintended consequences for Alaska Natives who hunt walruses and carve their tusks for a living.

Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scrimshaw with the etchings of local artists on fossilized walrus and mammoth ivory. But if a bill to ban the sale of ivory becomes law this year, she worries ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the ...