Editing Ivory (section)

====Fossil mammoth tusks====
Trade in the ivory from the tusks of dead [[woolly mammoth]]s frozen in the [[tundra]] has occurred for 300 years and continues to be legal{{Where|date=June 2024}}. Mammoth ivory is used today to make handcrafted knives and similar implements. Mammoth ivory is rare and costly because mammoths have been extinct for millennia, and scientists are hesitant to sell museum-worthy specimens in pieces.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/world/europe/25iht-mammoth.4.11415717.html|title=Trade in mammoth ivory, helped by global thaw, flourishes in Russia|newspaper=New York Times|date=2008-03-25|access-date=2017-11-03|first=Andrew E.|last=Kramer}}</ref> Some estimates suggest that 10 or more million mammoths are still buried in Siberia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mammoths: giants of the ice age |last1=Lister|first1=Adrian|first2=Paul G.|last2=Bahn|year=2007|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25319-3}}</ref>