The payoffs are real: ancient biochemistry could spawn new drugs or enzymes that work in extreme cold. Yet each core sample ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered two 14,000-year-old mummified “puppies” with their fur still intact and food still in their stomachs. Hidden beneath deep layers of permafrost in ...

F or 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 ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.

Frozen in Siberian permafrost, originally believed to be among the earliest domesticated dogs, the “Tumat Puppies” enthralled researchers and dog enthusiasts alike for more than ten years. However, a ...

The permafrost in northwestern Siberia is unusual for its very high amounts of both ice and methane, he told CNN. It would be hard for water from the top layer of soil to push through this thick, ...

A pair of canines found in Siberian permafrost were wolf sisters that died shortly after eating. A pair of 14,000-year-old ...

Frost mounds are areas of the permafrost that bulge as fluids accumulate beneath the surface. According to ongoing research at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SBRAS), two ...

A team of scientists has unveiled a baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia. The m ammoth was a “unique research find ...

An ancient cat was found almost perfectly preserved in Siberia's permafrost. Researchers found the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub in what is now Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic ...

The permafrost in northwestern Siberia is unusual for its very high amounts of both ice and methane, he told CNN. It would be hard for water from the top layer of soil to push through this thick, ...