May 30, 2025 by News Staff

Polar ecosystems are structured and enriched by birds, which nest there seasonally and serve as keystone ecosystem members. Despite the ecological importance...

May 9, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the fossils of three new fish species — including the earliest known salmonid fish, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — at...

Apr 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Bergmann’s rule is a scientific principle stating that animals in high-latitude, cooler climates tend to be larger than close relatives living in warmer...

Aug 10, 2023 by News Staff

A new genus and species of eutherian mammal has been described from a handful of tiny teeth found in the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska, the...

Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Florida State University has uncovered the first convincing evidence that several...

Jul 8, 2020 by News Staff

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized jawbone of a juvenile dromaeosaurid (raptor) dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in what is now northern...

Sep 22, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered in the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska. An artist’s depiction...