How Musk Oxen Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days Scientists wondered whether animals living above the Arctic Circle had the same circadian rhythms as the rest of us. Share full ...

When confronted with predators like wolves, a herd of musk oxen will famously circle the wagons, the adults forming a wall of horns facing outward, the vulnerable young safely shielded behind them.

Oomingmak, the Eskimo term for "musk ox," is also the name of the Musk Ox Domestication Project of the Institute of Northern Agricultural Research. The musk ox has been domesticated so that its fine ...

Joel Berger braves freezing temperatures and charging musk oxen to learn how melting sea ice is affecting mammalian encounters.

THE Zoological Society of London being anxious to obtain living specimens of the musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus), well known as one of the characteristic inhabitants of Arctic regions, the Council of ...