A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

It was the middle of winter under a moody Alaskan sky. On one side stretched the flat expanse of the Colville River. On the other, a soaring cliff face of frozen pewter-grey rock, backing onto ...

In early August 2024, Druckenmiller and his colleague Kevin May, along with Greg Erickson and Tyler Hunt of Florida State University, floated 160 miles along the upper Colville River on Alaska’s ...

Researchers found fossils of the “furry critter,” which lived 73 million years ago, along the Colville River, the University of Colorado Boulder said in an Aug. 10 news release. Researchers ...

“Tundra swans are extremely site faithful, so only extremely rarely would a Colville River bird end up on the West Coast,” Ely said. Both the East and West Coast tundra swans spend the ...

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