In a laboratory experiment, Alaska birds — which must survive very short days and extreme cold — cached about twice as many sunflower seeds as Colorado birds and later found them much more quickly.
A caller said a sow and a cub were eating a deer he had hung in a shed.
Alaska hunters are helping the state assess the extent of a bacterium in game animals that could cause respiratory problems.
The line was wrapped tightly through its mouth and across its blowholes. Its tail was also weighed down, likely by a large cod pot.
Gruening Middle School said no students were in the area of the dumpster when the bear was spotted.
Chris Flickinger says the number of animals killed by bears is way above average, causing a sizable financial loss.
Karen Mahan said she first tried to shoot the bear but her gun malfunctioned.
We heard tortured bellowing along an Anchorage bike trail, then saw two moose in silhouette, one lying on the ground.
How well walruses cope with less sea ice is at the heart of a legal fight over whether walruses should be listed as a threatened species, giving them an added protection against human encroachments.
Moose are more visible as the leaves fall off trees in Anchorage.
A salmon-gorging bear known as 409 Beadnose has won a battle of the bulge that has played out all summer at Katmai National Park and Preserve.
The cubs were floating upside down, each tied by the neck to a weight made of a milk jug filled with concrete, the men said.
Alaska's Private Non-Profit Hatchery Program is currently at the center of a political battle that could see restrictions placed on the number of hatchery-reared fish that are released each year.
The brown bears at Brooks Falls fatten up all summer in anticipation of the long winter ahead. Now it’s your turn to decide which one reigns supreme.
The 18-year-old from Oklahoma was a contract employee at Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island, officials said.
A senior veterinarian at SeaWorld said Tyonek is eating fish and interacting normally with the other nine beluga whales at the Texas park.
The group has become a hub for photos and conversations about Alaska’s marine creatures -- the unusual, the slimy and the sometimes grotesque.
Momentum for change to the 1973 act has been building since President Donald Trump took office last year.
The southern resident killer whales have lost three members this summer. Another orca, K25, is ailing.
The southern resident pod of killer whales has already suffered three losses this year, and is down to only 74 animals.
