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What killed the world’s giants?
7+ hour, 20+ min ago (620+ words) Dan Mann, right, ponders a bone of a marine mammal handed to him by his friend Lewis Sharman on the Southeast Alaska coast. Pam Groves of the University of Alaska Fairbanks looks at bones of ancient creatures she has gathered…...
Fairbanks Dinosaurs spread happiness worldwide
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1034+ words) Keep your eyes peeled. You never know when you will find a toy dinosaur to keep or re-hide. They are being found all over the world. Fairbanks Dinosaurs were a big hit at the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra's Jurassic Park Concert…...
Mastodons long gone from the far north
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (603+ words) courtesy of Grant Zazula, Yukon Paleontology Program A mastodon compared beneath to a woolly mammoth. A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a…...
Danish bird collection comes to Museum of the North
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (726+ words) An invaluable gift came to the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) last year " the Erritzoe collection from the House of Bird Research in Denmark. Specimens of snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) arrive in Alaska from Greenland. Dr. Johannes…...