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Mysteriously Young ‘Mammoth’ Fossils Discovered in Alaska Turned Out to Be Whale Bones
When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...
Was the confusion due to a filing error, or is it possible that whale specimens made their way 300 miles inland to Dome City?
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 ...
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 ...
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