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

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

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

In late 2025, researchers at the University of Alaska Museum of the North uncovered a startling revelation: two fossilized ...

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

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

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

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

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...