The paleontology advances as much by new excavations as by checking what the museums already have in hand. Many pieces have been classified there at a time when modern physico-chemical methods did not yet exist. The Alaskan fossils re-identified in a museum collection offer a spectacular case, since these vertebrae signed mammouth had in fact never belonged to an elephant of steppes. Two vertebrae at the heart of a dating program In 1951, archae…
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The paleontology advances as much by new excavations as by checking what the museums already have in hand. Many pieces have been classified there at a time when modern physico-chemical methods did not yet exist. The Alaskan fossils re-identified in a museum collection offer a spectacular case, since these vertebrae signed mammouth had in fact never belonged to an elephant of steppes. Two vertebrae at the heart of a dating program In 1951, archae…