Staff members with the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ and Polar Regions Collection at the Rasmuson Library work with elders from the Koyukuk River villages of Huslia, Hughes and Allakaket identifying subjects in old photos recently added to the library's collection.. UAF Photo by Todd Paris

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  • A woman holds a moose skull with antlers on one shoulder while standing in a shallow stream. Another woman sits with a paddle in an inflatable canoe nearby.

    Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival

    December 02, 2022

    When a great deal of Earth's water was locked up within mountains of ice, our ancestors scampered across a dry corridor from what is today Siberia over to ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ. Those adventurous souls may have been accompanied by another creature that needed wood -- the moose.

  • A woman sits behind a table covered with fossil bones. Shelves behind and around her hold plastic storage tubs and more specimens. A few antlers and skulls hang on a wall.

    Secrets of an ancient horse of the Yukon

    August 12, 2022

    In the lab of Yukon government paleontologists are the remains of saber-toothed cats, bears with boxy faces that stood 8 feet tall, woolly mammoths and sloths the size of gorillas. Of all these time-hardened riches of the past, Elizabeth Hall has a cherished piece -- the fragment of a horse's foreleg that fits in the palm of her hand.