Reindeer herders in Siberia were stunned to discover a mummified Ice Age cave bear — with all of its organs intact. The ...
For millennia, dangerous viruses have lurked beneath the Siberian permafrost. Now, a group of scientists has revived more than a dozen of these viruses from the ice to prove that it’s possible ...
As our planet continues to warm, the permafrost thaws and the Earth "loosens and slumps". The Siberian collapse revealed layers of permafrost, within the remaining portion of the hillside ...
The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow ...
US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly ...
The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms ...
As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...
This is demonstrated succinctly after researchers coaxed a batch of these worms back into action after they had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for an estimated 46,000 years. The mechanism ...
The idea of any living thing surviving tens of thousands of years in deep freeze sounds straight out of science fiction. But ...
The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...
Caption General morphology of P. kolymaensis, female. Scanning electron pictures (A, C), light microscopy photographs (E, F) and graphic presentations (B, D, G) of holotype: A, B) entire body, C ...
In 2018, a team of scientists led by ecologist Anastasia Shatilovich at the Russian Academy of Sciences published experiments where they dug deep into permafrost near the Kolyma River in northeastern ...