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 ...
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Frozen mammoth discovery shatters what scientists knew about ancient RNA

When scientists sliced into a block of Siberian permafrost and pulled out a woolly mammoth nicknamed Yuka, they expected to ...
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Mysteriously Young ‘Mammoth’ Fossils Discovered in Alaska Turned Out to Be Whale Bones

The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...

Alaska's 'Mammoth discovery' debunked: Ancient whale bones misidentified for decades

For more than seven decades, they sat in a university museum as prized specimens: two ancient bones that appeared to belong ...