7+ hour, 8+ min ago   (508+ words) By Jeff Richardson-UAF on Sep 5, 2026Comments Off on Ancient ‘cheetah’ adapted to a fish-based diet to survive When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two distinct territories — one in…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (577+ words) Dinosaur backbone is the first found on the icy continent, and belongs to a titanosaur around 6–7 meters in length. The first ever dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described for science. The fossil, a vertebra, was found…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (377+ words) Hamilton, ON – Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon’s deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large mammals, offering detailed genetic information about an environment that…...