Science

A footprint made by an ankylosaur, a plant-eating, armored dinosaur, and one by a carnivorous theropod were among the unusual finds in Aniakchak Bay.

Merbok started as a typhoon but grew into an eyeless monster as it drifted out of tropical latitudes.

Scientists last month noticed new movement on a slope on the Barry Arm fjord, but they’re uncertain of the potential dangers.

Sand is just about everywhere that glaciers were not during the last ice age, but most of the dunes are now covered with trees and shrubs.

Scientists believe that some farthest-north bats spend the winter in the state, but aren’t certain exactly where they stay.

At HAARP, the rural antenna field that has drawn the ire of conspiracy theorists, scientists study the region of space that’s home to the aurora.

It’s an often-unsung achievement that involves thousands of gallons of fuel, hundreds of miles traveled per hour and more than a million people in flight at a given moment.

The birch leafminer ate its way through birches across Southcentral and Interior Alaska this summer. Hot and dry weather earlier in summer may have been optimal for them.

Alaska’s biggest salmon run is booming despite warming water, and scientists are trying to understand why.

Scientists have turned to crowdsourcing to fund an effort that could help them determine when the woolly mammoth vanished from mainland Alaska.

Drained lake basins make up more than half of the Arctic coastal plain, but the complete drainage of a lake is rarely witnessed by people.

The NASA astronaut will be traveling to the International Space Station this fall and, if chosen, is on route to potentially being the first woman on the moon .

Elizabeth Hall, a paleontologist for the Yukon, has been digging up, identifying, and studying fossilized bones since her first trip to a gold mine in 2003.

Using traditional hunting knowledge and tools, North Slope whalers and scientists will soon be tagging bowhead whales in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas ― one example of a long-lasting collaboration between whalers and scientists.

With 36 years in Alaska now under his belt, science columnist Ned Rozell has learned a lot of local lingo. Reading the “Dictionary of Alaskan English” also helps.

At Alaska’s Gulkana Hatchery, a few people raise a brood of up to 35 million red salmon each year and release them into the Gulkana River system.

Brian Herbst, on vacation from the Lower 48, snapped a photo of a minke whale breaching out of the water — a relatively uncommon sight.

Two colleagues with the Bureau of Land Management developed the guide to identify and date the many Hills Bros. coffee cans found at old cabin sites.

The valley has cooled enough in the past century that the geysers of steam visible a few years after the Novarupta eruption no longer greet visitors to Katmai National Park — but the eruption site is still pretty much a moonscape.

A worker in Kantishna glimpsed the rare phenomenon in which hundreds of Alaska gnat snakeworm larvae formed a crawling column.

UAF researcher Dan Mann has spent decades traveling the outer coast of Glacier Bay National Park to try to find answers to some of the mysteries of the untouched landscape.

Rivers and streams become “salmon tea” when carcasses of salmon enrich the waters.

Acclimatization, the angle of the sun at high latitudes and other factors make summer heat more intense in Alaska.