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 […]