A close look at bones found in a Yukon cave may confirm a controversial finding made decades ago: that humans arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than many experts believe.
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Butchered Bones Found in Yukon Cave Bear Marks of Early Americans, Study Finds
They’re probably about half as old as scientists once thought they were. But a pair of butchered bones found in a cave near the Alaska-Yukon border are “definite” evidence of…
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700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded
The frozen remains of a horse more than half a million years old have reluctantly given up their genetic secrets, providing scientists with the oldest DNA ever sequenced. The horse…
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Thousands of Dinosaur Tracks Discovered Along Alaska’s Yukon River
An expedition in the remote heart of Alaska has made an unprecedented find for the Last Frontier: thousands of dinosaur tracks, of countless sizes and as-yet unnamed species, all along…
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N. America’s Oldest Bison Fossil Found, Revealing ‘Mother of All Bison’
A fossil bone found in Yukon reveals that all North American bison descended from a single female that crossed into the Americas less than 200,000 years ago.
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Giant Skull Found in Alaska May Be Evidence of Elusive ‘King’ Polar Bear, Experts Say
A giant skull discovered in Alaska may belong to a subspecies of polar bear that’s new to scientists but familiar to indigenous people in the Arctic.
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Ancient Predator of the Northern Plains Had Fiercest Bite of Any Mammal Ever, Study Says
A scrappy mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs packed the most powerful bite of any mammal, living or extinct, scientists say.
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Ice Age Cave Dwellers in Oregon Lived Among Extinct ‘Stout-Legged’ Horses, Fossils Show
Some of the earliest known inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest lived alongside a now-extinct species of ‘stout-legged’ horse, scientists say.
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Strange Scrapes Discovered in Colorado Are First Evidence of Dinosaur ‘Foreplay,’ Study Says
Paleontologists believe the marks are evidence of what they call “prehistoric foreplay” among the dinosaurs of Cretaceous Colorado.
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Ancient Human Footprints Found on Canadian Island May Be Oldest in North America
Tracks left along an ancient shore by a man, a woman, and a child on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia may prove to be the oldest known…
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2,500-Year-Old Bison-Kill Site Offers New Clues Into Ancient Culture of Northern Plains
A massive and rather cunning bison kill carried out some 2,500 years ago among the sand dunes of southern Alberta left behind a wealth of artifacts that are offering new insights…
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Alaska’s First Fossil Ichthyosaur Found With Last Meal Still in Its Gut
New insights into life in the ancient oceans are emerging from a huge fossil found in a remote reach of northern Alaska — the largest and most complete specimen of…
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Baby and Adult Dinosaur Tracks in Alaska Prove Duck-Bills Lived in ‘Social Herds,’ Study Says
Tiny baby dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska may have big implications for our understanding of the giant herbivores that once roamed the Arctic, paleontologists say. The baby tracks are among…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2013
A hundred million years ago, much of the territory that Western Digs covers was under water. But a large slice of it was dry land — a mini-continent that stretched…
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