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Scientists Thought They’d Found the Youngest Mammoth Ever, But A DNA Test Told a Different Story
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Scientists Thought They’d Found the Youngest Mammoth Ever, But A DNA Test Told a Different Story
A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something entirely different: whale bones. What seemed like a groundbreaking discovery about the extinction of mammoths has instead become a puzzling case of mistaken identity in the world of paleontology. Radiocarbon dating revealed the bones were much younger than expected, and not from a mammoth at all. The bones, discovered in …
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