By the looks of it, you wouldn’t have said this foal had been buried more than a few weeks, it was that perfectly preserved.

That means the world’s permafrost will disappear almost entirely by 2100 or earlier, releasing “hundreds of gigatonnes” of the 800-1,000 gigatonnes of primordial CO₂ trapped in the ice ...

A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife – after being preserved in Siberian permafrost for 130,000 years. Russian scientists carried out a necropsy on the long-dead mammoth calf, nicknamed Yana.

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 ...

Yana had been encased in Siberian permafrost – long-frozen earth – that had recently thawed. This exposed the creature's body, but it was kept in place at the rear. Scientists used scissors ...

After spending around 130,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost, Yana (named after the river basin in which she was found) is one of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens ever found.

After being removed from Siberian permafrost, the worms were gradually thawed in a lab until they started moving around and consuming food. The scientists say their findings could have ...

In 2014, scientists isolated viruses from the Siberian permafrost and showed they could still infect living cells, despite being frozen for thousands of years. Similarly, in 2023, scientists ...

Western Siberia Taz river. River greenhouse gas emissions rise high in areas where Siberian permafrost is actively thawing, a new study in Nature Geoscience shows. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost. The yearling mammoth, nicknamed "Yana," was first unveiled in December 2024.