Oceanography
Thousands of walruses flock to the northwestern coast of Alaska
The Pacific hippopotamus began gathering on the northwest coast of Alaska, to the sandy beaches of the sea.
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Oceanography
Research on climate change on melting glaciers
The pure ice cubes that you often put in a glass to drink, look quite solid. But if you had a really round block, really big made of ice, ...
Oceanography
Acid concentration in the Alaskan sea increased
What makes Alaska's seas one of the most productive regions in the world can also make them vulnerable to sea acidification.
Oceanography
The wreck found 139 years ago in Alaska
A team of divers found the remains of the US ship Torrent sunk off the coast of Alaska 139 years ago. The Torrent ship carrying 155 passengers was hit by coral and sunk…
Archeology
Stunned hypothesis, Mamut elephant extinct because of thirst?
The real cause of extinct mammoths is still a controversial issue.
Archeology
Discovered super long neck dinosaurs
Scientists have found the fossil skeleton of an ancient marine reptile with a super long neck and paddle-like limbs on a cliff in Alaska, USA.
Archeology
The 70-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil resembles the Loch Ness monster
Researchers have found a 70-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile in Mount Talkeetna, Alaska, shaped like a Loch Ness monster.
Archeology
Footprints emigrated to North America from 13,200 years ago
Scientists have recently discovered the oldest known footprints in North America so far on a small island off the coast of Western Canada.
Space science
NASA experimented with laser weapons penetrating ice for robots
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) will test high-energy laser-breaking weapons in the American Alaska ice. This weapon will be installed on robots that discover…
Space science
The best photos taken from space
Time magazine has just published the best photos taken from the space in 2013, in which there is a brilliant north aurora in Alaska, the image of Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraf…
Animal world
Why are tens of thousands of walruses stuck on Alaska beaches every year?
Since 2007, every year in September, tens of thousands of Pacific walruses have been trapped massively along the Chukchi coast, Alaska (USA). And this year is still the…
Animal world
'Ice tsunami' buried 52 American bulls
The Daily Mail reported that a 52-calf Alaskan herd had recently been caught in a
Animal world
Cold-blooded creature
When winter comes, the animals also have different ways to avoid coldness such as hibernation, burrowing underground, migrating to warmer places ...
Animal world
The cause of thousands of unusually dead birds along Alaska's beaches
Images of dead birds lying around all over the beach made many people shocked. So what causes them to die so massively?
Animal world
Identify the most miserable bird of love in the world
Because they want their race to be maintained, crazy birds fly tens of thousands of kilometers to find love objects.