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From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Reindeer comes from the Old Norse word hreindyri, which combines hreinn (the Old Norse name for the animal) and dyr ("deer").

In the Arctic, winter can last for months without a single ray of sunlight, yet life there never completely stops. Beneath ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.

A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder raises concerns about the future of one of the Rocky Mountains’ most recognizable animals, the American pika ( Ochotona princeps ), a small, fuzzy ...

A cruise of the Arctic Circle may take you through Greenland, Iceland, Norway or Canada – or all of them - Alexandra Daley-Clark b' Ice is not quiet. Standing at the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland ...

Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and ...

Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the English department at the University of Washington. She uses data to analyze contemporary ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals—including mammals, fish and birds—were discovered ...