In 1973, a teacher named Joan Hodgins took her students on a hike near Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory. In the process, she made history for this chilly region.

An artist’s imagining of an ancient relative of today’s rhinoceroses splashing through a stream next to turtles
 and fish in the Yukon [Credit: Julius Csotonyi]While exploring the tailings left behind by a now-defunct copper mine, Hodgins and her students stumbled…

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