Keyword: ottogeist https://freerepublic.com/tag/ottogeist/ en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 22:50:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 Scientists hung onto woolly mammoth fossils for 70 years - then discovered a huge mistake: ‘Something was amiss’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381502/posts Is it free woolly? Scientists were flabbergasted after discovering that the mammoth backbones that had been housed in an Alaskan museum for 70 years actually belonged to a whale, per a study published in the Journal of Quaternary Science. This archaeological case of mistaken identity began way back in the 1950s, when archaeologist Otto Geist happened upon some bones while traveling through the Alaskan interior, roughly 10 miles North of Fairbanks in a region formerly known as Beringia, The Smithsonian Magazine reported. He assumed the remnants, a pair of growth plates, belonged to the plush pachyderm mammoth based on their... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381502/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2026 22:50:47 GMT