Banner image: Reindeer are iconic Arctic animals adapted to thrive in extreme cold, but new extreme winter weather conditions, including higher temperatures and rain-on-snow events, are ...

It is one of Alaska's favorite Mother's Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age.

Bonding with ice age survivors is a tradition in Palmer, Alaska, where a Musk Ox farm draws 1,500 visitors on Mother's day.

Their closest relatives to animals of today would be Arctic goats. Mature musk ox bulls can stand 5 feet (about 1.5 meters) tall and weigh as much as 800 pounds (about 360 kilograms), while female ...

A pair of two-year-old muskoxen. In October 2023, an ROS event on Banks Island, the westernmost of Canada’s Arctic islands, killed close to 20,000 musk oxen, about 25% of the herd.