In a rare and captivating discovery, researchers have uncovered the remarkably preserved remains of a 44,000-year-old wolf ...

Siberia, a province located in Russia, is a significant geographical region playing a crucial role in the world's carbon ...

Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak accident—it was a warning shot. Thawing permafrost had awakened something ...

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 rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms could help farms on Mars. We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: ...

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 ...

The virus was found along with six others in the Siberian permafrost. The youngest frozen virus clocked in at 27,000 years old, while the oldest was 48,5000 years old, making it the most ancient ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

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 ...

The mammoths’ tusks, which could spiral to more than 13 feet, are reemerging from the permafrost—and fueling a trade that benefits the people of Arctic Siberia, including the native Yakuts ...

“Anthrax shows that bacteria can be resting in permafrost for hundreds of years and be revived,” said Evengard. In 2016, a child in Siberia died from the disease, which had disappeared from ...