Youngest Mammoth Fossils Identified as Whale Bones in Surprise Discovery

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For more than seven decades, two huge bone vertebrae have been kept in the North Museum of the University of Alaska listed as mammoth remains. These fossils were found in the middle of the 20th century near Fairbanks, a city about 400 kilometers from the nearest coast. Their location was already striking, but no one questioned their identification... until now. A new scientific study has revealed that fossils that for years were believed to belo…

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A new surprise occurred in the scientific world after an impressive discovery. For more than seven decades, the North Museum of the University of Alaska guarded what was believed to be the fossils of a mammoth. However, a new study of these remains showed that they are bones of prehistoric whales, which shocked the archaeological community globally. Fossils were found in the early 1950s by naturalist Otto Geist near Fairbanks, a city located 400…