Guthrie responded to the discovery of “Blue Babe,” a 50,000-year-old steppe bison found north of Fairbanks in 1979.

Once in North America, T. rex evolved and became widely distributed across Laramidia, the western half of the continent ...

In short, the Bering Land Bridge was more of a Bering Land Swamp, analogous to the modern-day Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska, the scientists said. The first-of-its-kind study could help ...

This roadless wilderness sits on the western edge of Alaska in an area known as the Seward Peninsula. Though few people travel here today, archaeologists believe that ancient populations migrated from ...

Corridors that allow animals to move to more hospitable landscapes are essential to their survival in a changing climate, ...

Sometimes the right person steps in. Dale Guthrie, an Alaska biologist and paleontologist who died in 2024 at the age of 88, was that guy. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

These ancestors of modern-day Alaska Natives traveled eastward from Siberia on the Beringian land bridge, a broad expanse of temporarily-exposed tundra that is today under three hundred feet of water.