Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby mammoth, and a squirrel ball.

Gold miners in the Yukon have made a habit of finding ancient fossils and mummified animals for scientists as their equipment plows through permafrost. Recent finds include a fully mummified ...

How locals saw the Yukon Gold rush, and why Fairbanks, Alaska was named after a young “gold adventurer” from Petaluma.

A Yukon gold miner discovered a mangled ball of fur about the size of a large grapefruit. X-rays show the fur ball is a curled-up ice-age squirrel in "great condition," scientists told CBC. The ...