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 ...

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.

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 ...

In this March 7, 2016 photo, ornaments and jewelry carved out of tiger and whale teeth as well as elephant ivory sit at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Honolulu.

Another woman told me she has some ivory jewelry but doesn’t dare wear it. “OK, it does look good, but I can’t wear it because it’s part of an elephant and I don’t want to condone and ...

Artist Denise Wallace presents a free public lecture, “I Am the Walrus,” on the subject of ivory use in works of art, at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian ...

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