Scientists Find Youngest Mammoth Bones on Record—Except They Were Whales

Scientists Find Youngest Mammoth Bones on Record—Except They Were Whales

For seventy years, two sets of bones in a University of Alaska museum were believed to be the last remains of the woolly mammoth. And not just any woolly mammoth, either. A young one. It was living, well, actually, quite dead proof that a few of these behemoths were still hanging around central Alaska as recently as 2000 years ago. Well, it turns out that they weren’t mammoth remains at all, and what they presented was a whole new mystery altoge…