News & Research

A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, argue that the fossil record of North American elk can be used to understand when humans may have first step onto North America.

Study provides new information on the life in the ancient sea that once ran through the eastern side of Yukon from the Arctic Ocean into the mid-west of North America.

Yukon's Dr. Grant Zazula and colleagues have released a new publication which explores and refines our understanding of the disappearance of mastodons in Yukon.

Camel fossils from Canada's frozen north have helped to make a major step forward into understanding the history of a mammal group best known from deserts around the world.

No joke, says Yukon government paleontologist Grant Zazula. "Yukon has a long and storied history with camel fossils," he said.

Reconstructions of Beringia's vegetation has long been debated. New research draws a picture of mammoths feasting more on small flowering plants rather than bunches of grass.

A discovery in Northern Yukon adds further detail to the story of Pleistocene migrations to North America via the Bering Land Bridge.