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Mummified specimen found in Alaska of the Pleistocene-Holocene Bison priscus, or steppe bison. This specimen, known as "Blue Babe" after the blue ox of Paul Bunyan folklore, derives its unusual coloration from a chemical reaction between the phosphorus in its skin and iron in the surrounding soil to produce a coating of vivianite.
The web page discusses various claims of pre-Columbian contact between the Americas and other continents, such as Polynesia, Europe, and Africa. It covers genetic, archaeological, and historical evidence, as well as scientific and scholarly responses to the claims.
Coelacanths are a group of fish related to lungfish and tetrapods that have been around for over 400 million years. They were thought to be extinct until 1938, when one was caught off the coast of South Africa, and now only two species are known to live in the Indian and West Indian Oceans.
Learn about the earliest known fish that lived from the Cambrian to the Quaternary, including some living fossils. Find links to lists of various prehistoric fish groups, such as jawless, placoderms, acanthodians, cartilaginous and bony fish.
They found their passage blocked by a huge sheet of ice until a temporary recession in the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age) opened up an ice-free corridor through northwestern Canada, possibly allowing bands to fan out throughout the rest of the continent. Eventually, Alaska became populated by the Inuit and a variety of Native American ...
On Your Knees Cave (49-PET-408) is an archaeological site located in southeastern Alaska (Prince of Wales Island).Human remains were found at the site in 1996 that dated between 9,730 ±60 and 9,880±50 radiocarbon YBP (Years Before Present) [1] or a calendrical date of 10,300 YBP. [2]
Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes and Arctic and subarctic coastal waters. It is closely related to salmon and lake trout, and has many characteristics and morphs depending on the environment and population.
Mawsonia is an extinct genus of giant coelacanth fish that lived in freshwater and brackish environments from the late Jurassic to the mid-Cretaceous. The type species is Mawsonia gigas, which may have reached 5.3 metres in length, and several other species have been described or disputed.