For the past 70 years, the fossilized remains have been housed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where researchers have assumed they belonged to some ancient, hulking creature that once ...

Was the confusion due to a filing error, or is it possible that whale specimens made their way 300 miles inland to Dome City?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the ...

Scientists from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks made an exciting discover at Denali National Park. Dinosaur fossils were found for the first time in the park north of Anchorage. The find was ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something entirely different: whale bones. What seemed like a groundbreaking ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...