Beijing: Chinese customs authorities said they seized 156 prehistoric mammoth tusks from a truck entering from Russia in one of the country’s largest such hauls.
The contraband was seized in late April at a border crossing in China’s Heilongjiang province bordering on Siberia, but the find was only announced this week by Chinese customs, state media said.
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