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 ...

In labs and boardrooms, a small group of technologists is trying to turn the woolly mammoth from Ice Age fossil into living, ...

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 unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

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 ...

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.

A new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, officials said. Named Macadens olsoni, the fossils were found in the Ste. Genevieve Formation, dating back ...

“Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that those amateurs let them know. “Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils ...