Tusk Hunter Plans Mammoth-Mine Venture to Save Elephants
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Four thousand years ago, humans may have pursued mammoths to extinction. Now the hunt is on again, and climate change is making it easier.
As permafrosts beneath the Arctic tundra melt, more fossilized remains are being exposed, and a trade is growing for the mammoth tusks that are larger and more valuable than elephant ivory.