Alaska doesn't really have any native dangerous spiders. But a few exceptions may occur, mostly around homes. Know what to avoid this summer.

When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis. His swollen and ...

The housecat-size predators have been sighted regularly in recent months, a phenomenon that hasn’t been totally explained.

The Arctic is a brutal desert of nutrients. For a nursing mother caribou, the stress is threefold: she is recovering from a ...

New research suggests female reindeer antlers serve as postpartum snacks, with new moms munching on them after giving birth ...

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

The author heads north by boat with his family, hoping to end a streak of bad luck by finally tagging a brown bear ...

A long-term study shows southern Alaska killer whales switch between salmon species and also eat groundfish as seasons and ...

The Trump administration is poised to open 2.1 million acres of long-protected Alaska land north of the Yukon River that has been protected for decades to mining and other industrial development. The ...

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of ...