Big digs in the Arctic reveal that it was inhabited by dinosaurs year-round and that the region was pleasantly temperate
VAST, stark, and largely frozen, Arctic Alaska is the most challenging place that veteran palaeontologist Roland Gangloff ever conducted field work. His Arctic explorations have yielded a rich collection of fossils and a vivid insight into life in the dinosaur-era land of the midnight sun.
Only a smattering of Alaskan dinosaur fossils were known in 1987, when Gangloff came to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. He flew north from there with a bush pilot and a load of gear…
