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 ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized remains were kept at a museum for decades before closer investigations ...

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

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. During the museum's Adopt-a-Mammoth program, which ...

Fossils from baby dinosaurs, some no bigger than a fingernail, point to the possibility that certain species lived and nested ...