Let’s discover the incredible find of a 30000-year-old baby woolly mammoth, perfectly preserved in Yukon’s permafrost. This extraordinary find enriches our understanding of Ice Age fauna and symbolizes a step towards reconciling relationships among the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people, miners, and scientists. The Discovery of Nun Cho-ga On a routine day in June, Travis Mudry’s mining ...
Discover the incredible find of a 44,000-year-old mummified wolf in Siberian permafrost. Discovery of the Ancient Wolf A mummified wolf was discovered in the Siberian permafrost, marking the first complete adult wolf from the late Pleistocene era. Location of the Discovery The wolf was found near a river in the Republic of Sakha, also known ...
The recent sighting of a gray whale near Nantucket has captivated the scientific community. Once thought extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for over 200 years, this unexpected return raises questions about what factors led to this remarkable event. Climate Change is Opening New Pathways Climate change has dramatically altered the Arctic landscape, including the Northwest ...
A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a “pretty strange” female polar bear — is “quite rare,” according to a new study. Genetic Sequencing Sheds Light on Hybrid Bears The research paper, published in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources, used a new tool ...
Research shows that goats can differentiate between happy and angry human voices. Not only that, but they tend to respond more positively to happy tones, demonstrating an understanding of emotional cues! Let’s learn about how this discovery adds to our knowledge of animal cognition and their ability to interpret human emotions. How the Study Was ...
In a remarkable find in Utah, paleontologists uncovered a new dinosaur species, Fona herzogae, that lived during the mid-Cretaceous period. This discovery has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of dinosaur life—underground habitation. Mid-Cretaceous Ecosystem Fona herzogae’s habitat was a lush floodplain ecosystem with rivers, surrounded by a vast inland sea and active volcanoes. ...
Paleontologists in Alberta recently uncovered an incredible find: the giant skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus! This dinosaur, which lived over 70 million years ago, was discovered near Grande Prairie in Canada. Let’s discover how this discovery adds to the rich history of fossils in the region, offering new insights into Alberta’s prehistoric wildlife! Unearthing the Giant ...
Heavy rains in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, recently led to a groundbreaking paleontological discovery. As torrents of rain eroded the landscape, a nearly complete 233-million-year-old dinosaur fossil was revealed, making it one of the oldest known fossils of its kind. The Significance of the Herrerasauridae Discovery The fossil, belonging to ...
In the quiet countryside of Elbert County, Colorado, a rancher stumbled upon something far more sinister than a coyote in his trap—a gray wolf, miles away from where it should have been. This mysterious creature, without a tracking collar and hailing from the Great Lakes region, wasn’t one of Colorado’s known wolves. How it made ...
Przewalski’s horses, also known as the last wild horse species, are making a remarkable return to the steppes of Kazakhstan. These incredible animals, who were once classified as “Critically Endangered”, had been missing from this region for over two centuries. A Historical Comeback For the first time in 200 years, these horses, now classified as ...
