The muskox pictured here, was spotted on Airport Road in Manokotak on an early Saturday morning in September, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Melvin and Sally Andrew) Melvin Andrew was out in Southwest ...

If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox.

Leaving cloven hoof prints from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, more than 3,500 musk oxen live in Alaska. All of those shaggy, curly-horned beasts came from one group ...