Reported ancient mammoth bones found deep in Alaska were actually whales from 250 miles away

What for decades looked like a remarkable woolly mammoth discovery in Alaska has turned into an even stranger scientific mystery. Researchers say fossilized backbones — not a complete skeleton — ...
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A fish so shaggy and strange that scientists named it after a Sesame Street mammoth went unidentified for over two decades

Discover the newly identified ghost pipefish, *Solenostomus snuffleupagus*, named after a Sesame Street character, revealing ...

Scientists hung onto woolly mammoth fossils for 70 years — then discovered a huge mistake: ‘Something was amiss’

Scientists were flabbergasted after discovering that the mammoth backbones that had been housed in an Alaskan museum for 70 ...

'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum For 70 Years Turn Out to Be Entirely Different Animal

After the discovery, Geist brought the bones to the University of Alaska's Museum of the North, where they were archived for ...