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Ice-Age Lesson: Large Mammals Need Room to Roam

By Meghan Murphy | UAF on Nov 3, 2015 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

A study of life and extinctions among woolly mammoths and other ice-age animals suggests that interconnected habitats can help Arctic mammal species survive environmental changes. The study appears online Nov. 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Short periods of warm climate in the midst of the last ice age triggered boom-and-bust cycles in the populations of large mammals in […]

Mastodons Long Gone from the North

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 12, 2014 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. These mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, reminders of an immense mammal that lived as far south as Honduras. A recent look at far-north mastodons shows […]