University of Alaska Museum of the North

Bureau of Land Management, Alaska.

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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Directions

Drive to the University of Alaska campus on the west side of Fairbanks and follow the signs to the museum on Yukon Dr.

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