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Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia’s Siberia

Moscow: The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found. Known as the “gateway to the underworld,” the crater is 1 kilometer deep and has previously revealed the remains of other ancient animals including bison, horses and …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

The Hindu

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. The carcass, weighing more than 110 kg, was brought to the surface on an improvised stretcher, said Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory in the city of Yakutsk. Here, for example, even though …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered in Russia due to melting permafrost

Live Mint

Scientists have uncovered the carcass of a 50,000-year-old giant baby mammoth in Russia as a result of melting permafrost. Nicknamed Yana, the female mammoth is an “exceptional” find by the research team, according to North-Eastern Federal University. The carcass was found among the melting permafrost at the crater, known as “gateway to the underworld”. Yana will be studied by scientists …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains go on display in Russia

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery The baby mammoth is one of the best-preserved mammoth carcass in …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Hallan mamut bebé preservado desde hace 50.000 años en Siberia

Associated Press

MOSCÚ — Los restos de un bebé mamut de 50.000 años descubiertos por el deshielo del permafrost en Siberia, Rusia, han sido revelados al público. Los científicos creen que Yana tenía solo un año de edad cuando murió hace unos 50.000 años. Han descrito sus restos, uno de los siete cadáveres de mamuts recuperados en todo el mundo, como el …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia’s Siberia

Associated Press

MOSCOW — The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found. Known as the “gateway to the underworld,” the crater is 1 kilometer deep and has previously revealed the remains of other ancient animals including bison, horses …

Russia Mammoth Yana

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Siberia

LA Times

Scientists at the Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University show the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Siberia. The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found. Known as the …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Intact remains of a 50,000-year-old young mammoth discovered in Sibera

India Today

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. The carcass, weighing more than 110 kg, was brought to the surface on an improvised stretcher, said Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory in the city of Yakutsk. Remains of a well-preserved baby …

2 weeks, 4 days ago

50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains found in Russia are the 'best-preserved' ever discovered

New Indian Express

MOSCOW: Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia. Experts say "Yana" is the best preserved mammoth carcass in the world and is one of only seven whole remains ever found. The carcass was dug up near the Batagaika research station where the remains of other …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Thawing Tundra Is Now a Carbon Source in Fast-Warming Arctic

Live Mint

-- The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred within the past decade, with 2024 likely to be the warmest yet. “It’s not just that the Arctic is warming just like the rest of the world,” said Rich Thoman, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “Because of these changes in the frozen environment, we’re seeing this …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Sink to source: Arctic is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs

Raw Story

After locking carbon dioxide in its frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions, a U.S. agency said Tuesday. This stark shift is detailed in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2024 Arctic Report Card, which revealed that annual surface …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Frozen in time discovery finally shows what sabre-toothed cats looked like

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new discovery by Russian scientists has amazed the palaeontology community …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

First-of-its-kind saber-toothed kitten mummy find is covered in soft fur

CNN

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. The well-preserved remains, uncovered in Siberian permafrost, are nearly intact, including surprisingly soft fur and even the “toe beans” — as cat lovers call feline footpads — on its front paws. When compared with modern lion cubs, the baby cat mummy’s anatomy revealed striking differences, including …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

NPR

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost toggle caption Lopatin et al. Researchers found the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub in what is now Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, in 2020. When looking at the mummified cub, scientists found some interesting differences between the kitten and a modern lion cub, particularly, in their …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Siberia: Why mysterious craters exploded in the Russian Arctic permafrost, according to scientists

CNN

CNN — A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide, plunging down into an inky abyss. It goes Sandwiched between the two are unusual pockets, about 3-feet thick, of salty, unfrozen water called “cryopegs.” As climate change drives warmer temperatures, the top layer of soil is melting, causing …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Palestinian seeds join Arctic 'doomsday vault'

Raw Story

A "doomsday vault" in the Arctic designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received a new deposit of thousands of seed samples, including Palestinian ones amid war and hunger in Gaza, it said on Wednesday. More than 30,000 samples from a record 23 organisations in 21 countries were deposited in the vault in Norway's Svalbard archipelago on Tuesday, the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Glaciologist digs deep into permafrost to gauge future disasters

The Hindu

Possible collapse of permafrost, which are permanently frozen rock or soil formations, is an emerging climate-change induced issue in the upper reaches of the Himalayas. Remya from Kerala, who is part of this year’s India’s Arctic Expedition, currently based at the Himadri research station in Norway, says that her work is aimed at identifying the probability of disasters due to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Associated Press

MERTARVIK, Alaska — Growing up along the banks of the Ninglick River in western Alaska, Ashley Tom would look out of her window after strong storms from the Bering Sea hit her village and notice something unsettling: the riverbank was creeping ever closer. The Yupik have a word for the catastrophic threats of erosion, flooding and thawing permafrost: “usteq,” which …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Woolly rhino mummy found preserved in Russian permafrost after 32,000 years

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. “The vast, vast majority of remains from Ice Age animals are bones and teeth without any flesh or skin or anything like that,” Love …

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4 months ago

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau research offers insight into effects of climate change

China Daily

A researcher retrieves data from a monitoring device in Shanza. Together with other institutes at the CAS they have set up more than 30 monitoring sites, scattered across the plateau from the Zoige grassland near its eastern edge to the western county of Rutog bordering India, as well as from Dromo county on the southern tip to Hoh Xil nature …

Research Plateau

4 months ago

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau research offers insight into effects of climate change

China Daily

A researcher retrieves data from a monitoring device in Shanza. Together with other institutes at the CAS they have set up more than 30 monitoring sites, scattered across the plateau from the Zoige grassland near its eastern edge to the western county of Rutog bordering India, as well as from Dromo county on the southern tip to Hoh Xil nature …

Research Plateau

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists find bacteria living in microwave ovens

The Hindu

Microorganisms have mastered the art of surviving on the earth. Unravelling the biological rules governing extremophiles could thus enable researchers to engineer organisms to have new abilities, like helping poultry resist an infectious disease or creating synthetic biological systems that can augment the immune system. The meaning of safety Speaking of medical impact: on August 8, researchers at the University …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Arctic ocean may absorb less CO2 than projected due to coastal erosion

LA Times

As Earth warms, the Arctic Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is waning due to melting permafrost and worsening coastal erosion, according to new research. “For the first time, we can actually put a sign — maybe not a number but a sign — on the change in the Arctic Ocean’s ability to take up CO2 from …

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5 months ago

An industrial Alaska community near the Arctic Ocean hits an unusually hot 89 degrees this week

Associated Press

An industrial community near the Arctic Ocean that supports Alaska’s North Slope oil fields hit a record 89 degrees Fahrenheit this week, the warmest temperature Deadhorse has seen in more than a half-century of record keeping. The unincorporated community marks the end of the 414-mile Dalton Highway, a largely gravel and dirt road used by trucks carrying oil field supplies …

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Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia’s Siberia

Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered in Russia due to melting permafrost

50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains go on display in Russia

Hallan mamut bebé preservado desde hace 50.000 años en Siberia

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Russia’s Siberia

Baby mammoth preserved for 50,000 years is unveiled in Siberia

Intact remains of a 50,000-year-old young mammoth discovered in Sibera

50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains found in Russia are the 'best-preserved' ever discovered

Thawing Tundra Is Now a Carbon Source in Fast-Warming Arctic

Sink to source: Arctic is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs

Frozen in time discovery finally shows what sabre-toothed cats looked like

First-of-its-kind saber-toothed kitten mummy find is covered in soft fur

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Siberia: Why mysterious craters exploded in the Russian Arctic permafrost, according to scientists

Palestinian seeds join Arctic 'doomsday vault'

Glaciologist digs deep into permafrost to gauge future disasters

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Woolly rhino mummy found preserved in Russian permafrost after 32,000 years

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau research offers insight into effects of climate change

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau research offers insight into effects of climate change

Scientists find bacteria living in microwave ovens

Arctic ocean may absorb less CO2 than projected due to coastal erosion

An industrial Alaska community near the Arctic Ocean hits an unusually hot 89 degrees this week