A California man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for illegally importing carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the U.S.-Canadian border, federal prosecutors said.

A man attempting to illegally export items made from elephant and walrus ivory has received a ... when in fact it was a carved ivory figure which had been sold for £147 and was being delivered ...

a pair of carved walrus tusks, and eight miniature porcelain polar bears—an iconography of the Arctic and Antarctic. On a wall is a portrait of Vladimir Putin. Chilingarov sits in a leather ...

But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us ... Medieval Europeans carved chess sets from tusks. From the 16th century to the 20th ...

Male walrus tusks can grow up to 39 inches long and female walrus tusks can grow up to 31.5 inches long. The average weight ...

Customs officers at Berlin Brandenburg Airport confiscated a 60 cm long walrus tusk from the luggage of a traveler from Georgia last Saturday. During a baggage inspection, X-ray images alerted ...

The tusk was described by auctioneers as "extraordinarily ... item is said to have been discovered in Siberia in the 19th Century and carved in China. It was purchased by a private buyer in ...

Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

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