A recently-retired Kotzebue teacher and author of a book on hunting pleaded guilty to unlawful actions around a hard-to-come-by permitted musk ox hunt in the Northwest Arctic Borough. According to ...

Six of us are caravanning by snowmobile along the Arctic Ocean coastline, en route to an area some 50 miles from our launching point of Ulukhaktok (Oo-loo-HOOK-took) where we expect to find musk ox.

Doomed musk oxen on ice floes are most often spotted by hunters in boats seeking marine mammals. When hunting walrus or seal, hunters try to shoot the animal on ice so it doesn't sink.

But musk ox hunting opportunities in Unit 18 are rare despite a thriving population. There are only a limited number of lottery permits.

Nat Geo sent Fast Company an early look at the episode with a some dramatic footage: a pack of Arctic wolves hunting and killing a pair of musk oxen. In the video below, a musk ox attempts to ...

Nowadays, the government prohibits the pursuit of musk ox or caribou from an ATV, making it more difficult to provide luxurious trophy hunting trips.

Musk oxen, the shaggy ice age relics that once vanished from Alaska, are dying in big numbers on the North Slope. They're starving on remote barrier islands, drowning in floods and being devoured ...

Stefansson apparently made a case for repopulating the Arctic with musk oxen to Thomas Riggs, governor of the Territory of Alaska from 1918 to 1921.

Most of the losses have been in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where there were 399 of the curvy-horned beasts in 1986. There was just one musk ox there this spring.

Musk ox hunting is not permitted in Bristol Bay, and there’s a closed moratorium in other regions of the mainland — Units 18 and 22 B,C, D and E, and in Unit 23.

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 ...