Wildlife

Eider, the world's prettiest musk ox, Palmer, Alaska, March 2025

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• Monitoring mercury levels in Kachemak Bay’s sea otters

• The platypus just got weirder: new type of melanosomes discovered in platypus fur

• Are LCD screens harming dolphins? Alarming evidence from Hong Kong suggests so.

• Diving into the data: UAA grad student analyzes sea otter behavior

• KPC students gain ‘hands-on’ experience during whale necropsy

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• UAA professor asks, 'Have you seen a snake in Alaska?'

• UAA grad student investigates the connection: volcanoes, lake trout and public health

• UAA undergrads study wolf behaviors with ADF&G

• Ice seals of the Bering Sea

• Hunting for extreme microbes

• Researching Alaska's apple orchard pollinators

• Studying biofouling in Port Valdez