Museum Kept Mammoth Fossils for 70 Years. They Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

A case of mistaken identity: Mammoth fossils from Alaska turn out to belong to two ancient whales

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

Alaska fossils misidentified as Mammoth bones for 70 Years revealed as Whale bones

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...
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'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum For 70 Years Turn Out to Be An Entirely Different Animal

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

Alaska's 'Mammoth Discovery' Debunked: Ancient Whale Bones Misidentified for Decades

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...
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Youngest Mammoth Fossils Identified as Whale Bones in Surprise Discovery

Learn more about the whale bones originally thought to be woolly mammoths' and how the hunt for the youngest mammoth ...

What looked like mammoth fossils for decades were actually ancient whales

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...
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Woolly mammoth fossils star in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the ...
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Dinosaur fossils found in Alaska

Scientists from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks made an exciting discover at Denali National Park. Dinosaur fossils were found for the first time in the park north of Anchorage. The find was ...