‘Kind of incredible’: Researchers uncover details about ice age wolf pup found in Yukon
Scientists who have been studying a rare, perfectly-preserved ancient wolf pup found in Yukon are sharing some of their findings for the first
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Paleontology
Moose on the Mediterranean? Research sheds new light on where moose once roamed
If you’re trying to survive an ice age — why not decamp to Italy? That’s what moose seem to have done thousands
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Research mission aims to better understand climate change in Arctic Canada
Scientists are loading a converted crab fishing boat in Dartmouth, N.S., in Atlantic Canada, with sophisticated instruments for a mission
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Fossils found in northwestern Canada help scientists retrace steps of ancient hyena
A pair of fossilized teeth found near Old Crow, Yukon (northwestern Canada), in the 1970s sheds new light on the
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Why did giant beavers go extinct? It was their diet, researchers say
If a modern beaver can fell big trees, dam rivers and essentially create its own habitat — imagine what a
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Paleontologists discover Arctic’s first-ever lambeosaur fossil in Alaska
Paleontologists have discovered the remains of the Arctic’s first-ever lambeosaur — a crested, duck-billed dinosaur — in Alaska’s North Slope.
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Indigenous oral history gives archeologists insight into early human life
University of Alaska archeologists are employing Indigenous oral history to gain more insight into what human life was like thousands
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An Alaska volcano and DNA reveal the timing of bison’s arrival in North America
After humans, the mammals most successful at colonizing North America were the bison that thundered across the Great Plains. Just
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Cretaceous-era prints in Alaska park suggest newborn hadrosaurs walked on all fours
Did baby duck-billed dinosaurs walk on two limbs or four? Paleontologists have long wondered. Now information gleaned from tracks found
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Where Arctic camels once roamed, coal mining can wait
A coal exploration project proposing to tread the same ground as the ancient fossil forests on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has
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Alaska’s Perot dinosaur had ‘wrong-way’ horns, study says
Why is Alaska’s pachyrhinosaurus species different from all other pachyrhinosaurus species? Apparently, it comes down to what was on the
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