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Nat'l Recreation Area

University of Alaska Museum of the North

Alaska · AK

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This museum curates, studies, and exhibits fossil collections from the public lands administered by BLM in Alaska. The museum collection includes more than 1,000 bones from at least 6 varieties of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Period (65 to 72 million years ago). Pleistocene (10-thousand-year-old to 2-million-year-old) fossils include mammoths, saber tooth tigers, bison, mastodons, camels and many other fauna.

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The University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) is a multidisciplinary museum of natural, cultural, and art history located on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). It is the only research and teaching museum in Alaska accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The museum serves as a cultural and scientific hub for Alaska and the Circumpolar North.

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