Frozen in time: 10 prehistoric animals found trapped in ice
2023年5月24日 · Long-extinct animals in superbly preserved time capsules are being unearthed in permafrost from across the planet — from Canada’s Yukon territory to Antarctica — enabling scientists a glimpse...
Five Fascinating Ice Age Finds Discovered in Yukon Permafrost
2022年2月7日 · Zhùr, a mummified wolf pup who lived some 57,000 years ago, was found by a miner in Canada's sparsely populated Yukon territory, where permafrost has preserved remarkable paleontological finds...
10 Amazing Permafrost Discoveries of Mummified Ice Age …
2017年11月3日 · All the permafrost discoveries listed below of mummified ice age megafauna are from the Pleistocene glacial period that lasted from 2.6 million years ago until the beginning of the Holocene. 1. Yuka, Woolly Mammoth. Discovered in Siberia, the six- to nine-year-old mammoth died 39,000 years ago.
17 Most Amazing Permafrost Discoveries From Siberia & Alaska
2023年6月4日 · The thick permafrost of Siberia and Alaska hides the mummified remains of many types of large and small ice age animals. In some cases, entire buried carcasses that have been shrunken and desiccated down to a natural mummified state have been dug up. Here is an updated list of 17 such frozen mummi
List of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies
It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic. Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some are still extant today. They have been listed to the most specific known taxonomic rank.
8 ancient 'zombie viruses' that scientists have pulled from the …
2023年6月1日 · From pathogens resurrected from clumps of mammoth wool to particles hiding in the petrified intestines of a Siberian wolf, here are eight viruses that scientists have pulled from the permafrost....
melting permafrost best ice age discoveries extinct ... - AccuWeather
From a squirming microorganism awakened from its deep multi-millennial slumber to a pair of mummified lion cubs, fascinating discoveries of some of the most immaculately, remarkably preserved...
Scientists keep finding things buried in the permafrost - Cosmos
2023年12月26日 · In August, European researchers published a paper showing they revived a 46,000 year-old Siberian roundworm preserved in permafrost. The animal was collected from the frozen burrow of Arctic...
Scientists discover 1,700 new 'zombie' viruses in ancient permafrost …
2024年8月29日 · More than a thousand new species of ancient viruses discovered in the Himalayas. An international team of scientists has unearthed 1,700 new viral species from the permafrost in the Himalayas. The researchers are racing to secure ice cores as permafrost melts around the world, threatening the historical information trapped inside the ice.
Weird ancient creatures found in Russia's permafrost
Yakutia can be described as a scientist’s favorite “refrigerator”: animals that are tens of thousands years old are discovered there almost every year. A spoiler: some of them have even come back...