#HeadlineTherapy 'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum for 70 Years Turn Out to Be and Entirely Different Animal.
Thanks to Jess Cockerill and Science Alert Online for the Headline. What a bummer, the adopt a mammoth scheme run by a museum led to the discovery that two bones from the spine of a large animal found in 1951 in the Alaskan Interior are actually from a whale not a mammoth. The DNA analysis that they were able to complete from the “adoption money” to determine the age of the bones, showed they…








