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Thule snow goggles: 1,000-year-old Arctic eyewear carved from walrus tusks
The oldest known human portrait in the world What it tells us about the past: These goggles, crafted by the Thule people who ...
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The Unexpected Walrus
Each is a rumpled portrait of buckteeth and whiskers, deep scars and bloodshot ... But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us can ...
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Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade
Morphologists at the Lab often receive uniquely carved ivory items that have been imported with little or no documentation. In recent years, analysts examined several purported ivory tusks suspected ...
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Russia’s Federal Customs Service finds tusks of rare walrus in passenger’s luggage
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Domodedovo customs officers have found the tusks of an endangered walrus species in a passenger’s luggage, Russia’s Federal Customs Service reported. According to it ...