A group of scientists just revived 13 prehistoric viruses that had been preserved beneath the Siberian permafrost. Researchers extracted samples from beneath a lake, from the wool of a mammoth, and ...

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 ...

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA -- 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.

Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia is one of the coldest places in the world, with a record low temperature of -64C recorded on 5 ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

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 ...

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 MOSCOW (AP) — The 50,000-year-old ...

All around the world, scientists are working to recreate lost animal species such as the mammoth. Using modern genetic ...

In Scandinavia, it reaches a depth of 20 meters, up to several hundred meters in Alaska and up to 1500 meters in Siberia – explaining all too well why Shergin had such trouble finding liquid water in ...