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“Here is the largest land mammal of the polar zones, but we hardly know anything about musk oxen,” said Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist at Colorado State University and a senior scientist at the ...

It's long been debated in scientific circles just what killed off some of the species that thrived following the last ice age. What led to the extinction of animals like saber-toothed tigers, dire ...

The main threat to animals is illegal hunting, in which involved are both hunters and reindeer herders, as well as employees of industrial and resource companies YAKUTSK, April 15. /TASS/. The number ...

PALMER — It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age. All moms got a daisy and free admission Sunday at the Musk ...