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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 12d

Someone recently asked us: what's the coolest fossil in your collection? 🤔

When we asked one of our colleagues over at Yukon Palaeontology they immediately said the weird ones. They even have a few shelves full of 'em!

#FossilFriday #WhitehorseWeird #Paleontology

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Gouvernement du Yukon @fr.yukon.ca · 15d

À venir en fin de semaine!📢
Ce samedi 27 septembre, venez souligner la Fête de la culture au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie. L’entrée est gratuite! Joignez-vous à nous à 11 h ou à 14 h 45 pour une visite guidée. Vous pouvez également faire une visite autoguidée en tout temps.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 16d

Coming up this weekend 📢

This Saturday, September 27, join us at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for Culture Days and our last day of summer hours. Admission's free! Take a self-guided tour or join us at 11 AM or 2:45 PM for a guided one.

#CultureDays #WhitehorseYukon #YukonEvents

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 20d

The weather might say autumn, but our schedule says summer 🌞

Now through September 27, we're open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.

We'll be taking a short break from Sunday September 28 to Friday October 3, but reopen with our winter hours Saturday October 4.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 22d

First stop on your next visit to the Beringia Centre?

A warm and woolly welcome from the mammoth family outside the museum 🦣

#MuseumMonday #MammothMonday #WoollyMammoth #TravelYukon #MuseumsOfTheWorld

A warm and woolly welcome

YouTube video by Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 27d

Come celebrate #CultureDays and the final day of our summer season with FREE admission on Saturday September 27 from 10 to 5 pm. This is your last chance to visit before we change to our winter hours.

Explore on your own or take one of our guided tours at 11:00 AM or 2:45 PM.

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬

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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!

New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!

Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 26

Long before dogs became our best friends, their ancestors roamed Beringia 🐺

This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age.

#InternationalDogDay

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy first day of school, Yukon!

Teachers: if you're looking to plan your next field trip, we offer guided school tours year round. For details, visit our website: beringia.com/learn/schools

#BackToSchool

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · Aug 21

This research not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. 🦣

gizmodo.com/million-year...

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 21

That time, Crow can be a man or can fly around. He knew the water was going to rise, floods were coming

Crow Makes the World by Mark Porter & Keith Wolfe Smarch shares the First Nations legend about Crow bringing abundance to the earth after a great flood

Learn about the artists: bit.ly/4lFbXrM

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 20

From these samples, we hope to:

1️⃣ Radiocarbon date the fossil to pinpoint when black-footed ferrets lived in the Yukon
2️⃣ Analyze ancient DNA to trace their evolution and their ancestor's arrival from Eurasia
3️⃣ Identify unique genetic diversity, which may help support modern conservation efforts

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 20

In 1984, a dog named Molly discovered this remarkable fossil on a gold mine in the Sixtymile River area. It turned out to be a black-footed ferret, the first ever found in the Yukon. Recently, we were carefully removed the ferret from its exhibit case to take 2 tissue samples for scientific testing.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s no #LifeOfAShowgirl, but the life of Arctic ground squirrels deserve your attention. These tiny mammals have arguably taught us more about Ice Age Beringia than any other animal.

Curious to learn more? Visit us in person during our open hours or check out our website: bit.ly/3JfA0zV

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 13

When we renovated our main exhibit hall, one of our goals was to make the Ice Age feel more real. From the glint in a predator’s eye to the texture of its fur, every detail helps bring the world of Beringia to life.

Bas reliefs by Metrographics
Photos by Manu Keggenhoff

#PaleoArt #TravelYukon

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Aug 8

While the galleries might be quiet when we’re closed, behind the scenes we’re hard at work.

During a recent deep clean, we discovered some fossils were starting to stick to their cases. To protect them, we cut soft, inert fabric to fit each fossil precisely.

#FossilFriday #BehindTheScenes

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 31

Join us Sat Aug 2 at 1 PM for a special in-person Beringia Centre Science Talk with Dr. Lauren Norman on new research at Bluefish Caves, a northern Yukon site that has long been at the center of archaeological debate.

More info: beringia.com/events/bluef...

#BCST

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 25

A little behind-the-scenes peek at the Yukon Palaeontology collection for #FossilFriday 🦴 These partial steppe bison skulls are just a small sample of the fossils in the collection.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our summer hours are in full swing ☀️

We're open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM until September 27.

Plan your visit at www.beringia.com

#TravelYukon #MammothMonday

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 3

2/2 Because explosive volcanic eruptions typically last just few days, tephra beds represent an instant of geologic time and can act as a reference point for relative dating. That means that when you can identify a tephra layer, you can roughly date fossils based on stratigraphy.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 3

1/2 When you think of the Ice Age, volcanoes might not come to mind, but in our opinion they totally should.

When volcanos erupt, they send ash, pumice, and other debris into the sky. These materials, called tephra, settle into distinct layers that can be preserved in soil for thousands of years.

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · Jul 1

Got plans for Canada Day? 🇨🇦

We’re open today from 10 to 5, plus we're also offering free and discounted admission for visitors aged 24 and under as part of the Canada Strong Pass. It doesn't get much more patriotic than that!

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · Jun 26

Have not been to the Beringia centre since the renovation. It is great! This is Kevin standing in front of the wall of bones! Top left Woolly Mammoth, top right Canadian Mastadon. Three skulls on the lower left are short facesbear, grizzly, black. Above on left plains bison and steppe bison. ….

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