Laser scans to detect illegally traded ivory

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Laser scans to detect illegally traded ivory

Despite an international ban, hunters continue to hunt elephants to get to their stump teeth. Because the trade with the elephant leg is illegal, but lucrative. But how can the customs prove whether the elephant leg comes from an elephant or a long-deceased mammoth whose trade is legal? A research team has now developed a new laser technology, [...] The article Laser-Scans to detect illegally traded elephant leg appeared first on wissenschaft.de.