A team of scientists is heading for the Yukon River. They’re looking to solve a decade-old mystery about a treasure trove of dinosaur tracks and KYUK Senior Reporter Emily Schwing is along for the ride. As she and the team prepare for their trip in Fairbanks, she catches up with KYUK reporter Evan Erickson.
Scientists head down the Yukon River seeking dinosaur footprints
![Tony Fiorillo and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi measure and record a dinosaur track at Aniakchak Bay in the Aleutians in 2022. This year, the two paleontologists are focusing their attention on the Interior, where scientists reported a trove of dinosaur tracks in 2013 somewhere along the Yukon River.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e72d21d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1086x724+0+0/resize/880x587!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13%2F3a%2F6ff8fa394edcbbdcc05fcf3465df%2Fimage2.jpg)
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