Animals like chickens, goats and potentially even oxen could come to Wilmingtonians' emotional rescue if a city councilman's new pet project becomes law. City residents could find consolation in ...

Over the last five months, multiple sled dogs in Nome were attacked by musk oxen in at least four separate incidents. In October, one of the attacks resulted in the death of a dog, and now, people in ...

FAIRBANKS - Visitors to Alaska can’t count on seeing a herd of musk oxen or caribou in the wild, but the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Large Animal Research Station may offer the next best thing.

Students guide the oxen Bill and Lou, pulling a mower in healthier days (Green Mountain College image). A couple of years ago, I visited Green Mountain College and toured the Vermont college’s ...

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 ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

The biologist Marci Johnson spent the daylight hours of Valentine’s Day 2011 in a helicopter, high over the Alaskan coastline, searching for musk oxen. It was part of her job. Through the winter, she ...