Some modern Alaska Natives still live almost exactly where their ancestors did 3,000 years ago The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Others settled […]
Alaska State Trooper reported on Monday that the human remains discovered by a caller on Saturday evening have been tentatively identified as those of a Soldotna fugitive wanted in an Arson/Shots-Fired incident on October 15th, 2022. Troopers responded to the location near the Funny River after receiving the call and located partial remains, firearms, and […]
Seeps can provide habitat, alternative energy and drug therapies A NOAA Ocean Exploration-led team has discovered what appears to be evidence of a large gas seep at a depth of nearly 1.4 miles (2,300 meters) along the Aleutian Trench. The discovery was found in data collected during the Seascape Alaska 1: Aleutians Deepwater Mapping expedition […]
For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian palaeontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known ichthyosaur or ‘fish-lizard’ on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Ichthyosaurs were an extinct group of marine reptiles whose fossils have […]