The Minnesota Zoo decided to stop breeding musk oxen and not welcome any new herd members due to the state's increasing temperatures around a decade ago Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE ...

FAIRBANKS - Visitors to Alaska can’t count on seeing a herd of musk oxen or caribou in the wild, but the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Large Animal Research Station may offer the next best thing.

Over the last five months, multiple sled dogs in Nome were attacked by musk oxen in at least four separate incidents. In October, one of the attacks resulted in the death of a dog, and now, people in ...

June 21 (UPI) --On a blustery March day at the Large Animal Research Station, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, manager Emma Boone plods through the facility's northern paddock as a pair of teenage musk ...

The muskox pictured here, was spotted on Airport Road in Manokotak on an early Saturday morning in September, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Melvin and Sally Andrew) Melvin Andrew was out in Southwest ...

YAKUTSK, February 14. /TASS/. The number of musk oxen, which in an experiment had been brought to the Zavyalov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, continues to grow and now is more than 30 animals, the ...

Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the ...

An aging musk ox was euthanized Tuesday after breaking her leg at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. The 18-year-old animal, called Hasxil,was found lying in her exhibit Tuesday and did not want to stand.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Arctic is a difficult place to live, but several species of animals have made it their home for thousands of years. Today, researchers are studying those animals to see how ...

Over the last five months, sled dogs in Nome were attacked by musk oxen in at least four separate incidents. In October, one of the attacks resulted in the death of a dog, and now, people in the ...