A moose collision at mile 167 of the Sterling Highway sent a 25-year-old mother and two children to the hospital for evaluation early Monday morning, troopers report. 25-year-old Ashley Morey was traveling southbound on the Sterling Highway at just after 6 am on Monday morning when she encountered a moose that ran into the […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]laska State Troopers are working to positively identify the identity of a driver who died as a result of a vehicle/moose collision near the intersection of Pittman Road and Greensward Drive in Wasilla at just before 4 am on Friday morning, troopers revealed in the trooper dispatch. The report of the accident went into trooper […]
(Anchorage) —- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking citizens to report moose sightings this weekend for the Anchorage winter moose count. Now entering its third year since an initial pilot project in February 2017, the novel, ground-based survey technique uses DNA taken from city moose to estimate moose numbers in the Anchorage […]
A scientist from Ohio once pondered why moose have such long noses. Why, one might ask, does a scientist from Ohio care? It can tell them about evolution, said Lawrence Witmer, a biologist and professor of anatomy at Ohio University. As part of a study of unusual noses on dinosaurs and modern animals, Witmer and […]