When a scientist went to an uninhabited island in Nunavut to set up a research station he stumbled across something else: dozens of dead caribou.

It's not common to see animals of any kind, including moose, in the community of Pitkas Point.

4-22-13 wolf roaming city - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

4-21-13 Early brown bear - Pedro Bay, Alaska, USA

2-2-13 Many wolf sightings - Togiak, Alaska, USA

Black bears are not normally seen during this time of the year.

St. Marys residents concerned about possible interactions

1-17-13 Winter brown bear - St Marys, Alaska, USA

A rare sighting to observe a brown bear in January.

Brown bears spotted by a resident for the first time on the island of Shishmaref.

10-1-12 More brown bears - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA

8-24-12 Lynx in high Arctic - Barrow, Alaska, USA

So far approximately 340 bison have died from an anthrax outbreak in the Fort Providence area of the N.W.T.

Wolves and bears rummaging around the dump.

Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) seen with large amount of hair loss.

The Far North's iconic polar bear appears to have joined the list of Arctic species afflicted with a mystery illness that causes hair loss, lesions and oozing sores. Six in Barrow and three in Kaktovik.

Thirty-two musk oxen carcasses were found March 15 by scientists who had been studying them. The animals were dead and entombed in ice. The belief is that the musk oxen either drowned during a February thaw or became trapped in water and died after it froze.

Across the Far North, populations of caribou — an indispensable source of food and clothing for indigenous people — are in steep decline. Scientists point to rising temperatures and a resource-development boom as the prime culprits.

Mountain lion sighting on the Chandalar River

Interior residents are reporting varieties of wildlife that are new to the region, including mule deer, mountain lions and whitetail deer.