Because of its high reputation, they're frequently used as symbolic accessories and many beautiful decorative Zodiac animals have already been carved in ivory. There are always a selection of ivories which are employed for digging innumerable statues and sculptures representing Zodiac creatures and signs.

A few of the Woolly Mammoths have delicate tissue maintained and with the publishing of the recent, controversial research into the half-life of DNA, talk undoubtedly converts to the possibility of obtaining genetic product from these extinct animals with the long-term intention of producing clones and resurrecting a species.

The Mammuthus genus (Mammoths) were people of the Elephantidae sub-family, taxonomically classified with extant elephants. They were highly effective herbivores that existed across northern latitudes (Asia, Europe and North America) as well as Africa. A number of species have already been determined like the popular Woolly Mammoth (M. primigenius) and the more expensive species, associated with milder climates the Columbian Mammoth (M. columbi) mammoth tusk.


That enormous animal, the only identified residing maritime carnivore that's tusks, lives in Arctic waters down both coasts of upper North America and also off northeastern Siberia. It measures from 8 to 12 legs in length when fully developed and weighs around 3,000 pounds. Its thick hide is tough and wrinkled and nearly naked of fur. Both guy and woman walrus develop tusks, which they use in fighting and in searching for mollusks. Tusks of a grownup walrus might measure around 39 inches in length.