Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

Transporting the giant mammals poses logistical difficulties but the postmortem examinations could reveal a lot about the health and dangers facing whale populations.

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A Derbyshire dentist is halfway through a gruelling challenge to row across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny rowing boat.

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

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For decades, fossils discovered in Alaska were believed to belong to ancient mammoths, but recent testing has shocked ...