Ivory-scanning lasers used to illuminate the illegal elephant in the room

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An ivory figurine undergoes Raman spectroscopy analysis as part of the study

Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, hopefully reducing the revenue stream for poachers.

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