A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

One of the most abundant elements on our planet and in the human body is oxygen, in particular the isotope oxygen-16. With ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...

Stable isotopes are isotopes of chemical elements that do not undergo radioactive decay or are not susceptible to radioactive decay. ... Oxygen-18 (18O ) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one ...

Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...

They measured multiple types of sulfur isotopes from cores drilled into the rocks. “What we got was really cool and a little bit surprising,” he says. The sulfur isotopes showed several fluctuations ...

Oxygen isotopes. Now, Paltiel and colleagues have shown that nuclear spins are also relevant to CISS. The researchers set up two experiments involving three stable isotopes of oxygen. These are oxygen ...

Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ...

This measurement provides carbon, oxygen and “clumped” isotope ratios for carbonate minerals, which enables us to reconstruct the temperature at which the carbonate formed, along with information ...