In 2016, A Freak Anthrax Outbreak Swept Across Siberia—And Thawing Permafrost Means It Could Happen Again
Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak accident—it was a warning shot. Thawing permafrost had awakened something ...
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Reindeer Herders In Siberia Stumble Upon Ice Age Cave Bear With Its Organs Intact
Reindeer herders in Siberia were stunned to discover a mummified Ice Age cave bear — with all of its organs intact. The ...
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Scientists ‘Awaken’ 13 Prehistoric Viruses From The Siberian Permafrost — And Warn That Climate Change Could Rouse More
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 ...
Russian Scientists Brought 24,000-Year-Old Zombie Worms Back to Life
The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms ...
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Inside Siberia's 'megaslump' – and why it is getting bigger
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 ...
After 46,000 years, once thawed the worm extracted from Arctic permafrost resumed normal activity
The nematode, officially named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, was discovered at a depth of 40 meters inside a fossilized burrow ...
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Nematodes From The Siberian Permafrost Woke Up After A 46,000 Year Long Nap
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 ...
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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all.
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 ...
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The Siberian Bone Hunters Diving for Ice Age Mammoth Fossils
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 ...
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Siberia's enormous hole in the ground is getting bigger
A large crater in Siberia is getting bigger due to the way permafrost interacts with the environment. It is helping scientists understand more about past climates and how the permafrost is ...
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(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork
Romanovsky: Permafrost can be very, very old, particularly in Siberia. There are some estimates that the permafrost in parts of the Siberian north could be up to 2 million years old. In Antarctica, it ...
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Worms Frozen for 46,000 Years are the Oldest Known Living Animals
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 ...