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 ...

But, non-Native carvers who only work with fossilized ivory are not shielded in the same way. Listen now As states tighten restrictions on ivory, Skagway carvers worry about the future ...

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.

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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Cheryl Konrad has spent the last 35 years educating visitors to her Lahaina, Hawaii, store about the centuries-old history of scrimshaw.Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scri… ...

That has repercussions for Alaska Native ivory carvers, who use tusks from legally hunted walrus. Alaskans push for acceptance of walrus ivory, but there's an elephant in the room ...

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 ...

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.

“What really surprised us was that much of the walrus ivory exported back to Europe was originating in very remote hunting grounds located deep into the High Arctic,” Peter Jordan, study co ...

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 ...