Shock in the Scientific Community to Discover that the World's Most Recent Mammoth Fossils Were Whales

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During much of the 20th century, two vertebrae guarded in the North Museum of the University of Alaska fed an extraordinary hypothesis. The pieces, recovered in the 1950s near Fairbanks by the naturalist Otto Geist, were classified as mammoth fossils and accepted as such without great questioning. Their relevance was that they seemed to indicate a late survival of these animals inside Alaska. Scientific interest was reactivated in 2022, when a t…