The University of Alaska Museum of the North is focusing on skulls during family programs in October. Families with children ages 5 and under are invited to drop in at Early Explorers on Friday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to noon. Create and discover with hands-on activities in the Creativity Lab, and explore the galleries. […]
Their staccato voices can make a muskeg bog as loud as a city street, though most are so small they could sit in a coffee cup without scraping their noses. They surprise hikers, who notice them hopping around in a spruce forest, nowhere near water. Wood frogs, America’s farthest-north amphibians and one of our state’s […]
Human footprints preserved in mud at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest that humans arrived there — possibly via Alaska — at least 21,000 years ago. No one alive today knows how people got that deep into North America from Asia so long ago. But a team of scientists has proposed winter sea […]