A recently-retired Kotzebue teacher and author of a book on hunting pleaded guilty to unlawful actions around a hard-to-come-by permitted musk ox hunt in the Northwest Arctic Borough. According to the ...

Musk ox qiviut is considered among the finest wool in the world, and it’s VERY expensive, selling for $30-$60 per ounce. Although they are “easy” to hunt, musk ox populations are considered to be very ...

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If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management unit, they can now legally hunt it without a permit because the land mammals don’t have much ...

Nature is cold and brutal in so many ways. But then, if you’ve been following National Geographic’s breathtaking wildlife series Hostile Planet, you already knew that. The six-part docuseries, which ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Musk oxen, the shaggy ice age relics that once vanished from Alaska, are dying in big numbers on the North Slope. They’re starving on remote barrier islands, drowning in floods and ...

Musk oxen, the shaggy ice age relics that once vanished from Alaska, are dying in big numbers on the North Slope. They’re starving on remote barrier islands, drowning in floods and being devoured by ...

"I just had muskox Thai curry at the only restaurant in town," I messaged my friend after dinner one night in Kangerlussuaq at the Polar Bear Inn. "Greenland has restaurants?" she replied. Yes, ...

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 ...