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Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of HandA photo of meltwater and a forest taken in Chupa, Karelia, Russia

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Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of HandA photo of meltwater and a forest taken in Chupa, Karelia, Russia
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Highs Of 35°C In Siberia: Temperatures In The Arctic Circle Have Been Getting A Little Out Of Hand

clock-iconAugust 11, 2026

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?

clock-iconJuly 21, 2026
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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study

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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice AgeA frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study
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Frozen In Time For Over 30,000 Years, Cave Lion Mummies Reveal A Legacy Of Interbreeding With Modern Lions During The Ice Age

clock-iconJune 3, 2026

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"Corpse Point" In Svalbard Is Melting, Revealing Centuries-Old Skeletons, Disease, And A World Of TraumaPainting depicting whaling in Svalbard in 1690.

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"Corpse Point" In Svalbard Is Melting, Revealing Centuries-Old Skeletons, Disease, And A World Of TraumaPainting depicting whaling in Svalbard in 1690.
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"Corpse Point" In Svalbard Is Melting, Revealing Centuries-Old Skeletons, Disease, And A World Of Trauma

clock-iconMay 25, 2026
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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.
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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animals

clock-iconMay 22, 2026

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A Rotifer Got Buried In The Siberian Permafrost. 24,000 Years Later, It Came Back To Life.Bdelloid rotifer under a microscope.

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A Rotifer Got Buried In The Siberian Permafrost. 24,000 Years Later, It Came Back To Life.Bdelloid rotifer under a microscope.
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A Rotifer Got Buried In The Siberian Permafrost. 24,000 Years Later, It Came Back To Life.

clock-iconApril 14, 2026

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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomacharticle image

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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomacharticle image
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"We Need To Do Some Genetics On This": World-First As Entire Woolly Rhino Genome Recovered From Ice Age Wolf Pup's Stomach

clock-iconJanuary 14, 2026
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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 YearsYuka the woolly mammoth on display in a frozen collection.

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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 YearsYuka the woolly mammoth on display in a frozen collection.
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World's Oldest RNA Recovered From Baby Mammoth Beautifully Preserved In Permafrost For 40,000 Years

clock-iconNovember 14, 2025
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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost lead author of this study,Gennady Boeskorov, with the record-breaking horn, taken at the Mammoth Museum (Yakutsk

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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost lead author of this study,Gennady Boeskorov, with the record-breaking horn, taken at the Mammoth Museum (Yakutsk
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Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost

clock-iconOctober 8, 2025
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"It Smells Really Bad": Ancient Life Frozen In Alaska For 40,000 Years Has Been Woken UpA cemetery slowing sinking into thawing permafrost in Barrow, Alaska.

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"It Smells Really Bad": Ancient Life Frozen In Alaska For 40,000 Years Has Been Woken UpA cemetery slowing sinking into thawing permafrost in Barrow, Alaska.
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"It Smells Really Bad": Ancient Life Frozen In Alaska For 40,000 Years Has Been Woken Up

clock-iconOctober 7, 2025
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Alaska's Salmon River Is Turning Orange – And It's A Stark Warningaerial view of Alaska's Salmon River, which has turned orange

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Alaska's Salmon River Is Turning Orange – And It's A Stark Warningaerial view of Alaska's Salmon River, which has turned orange
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Alaska's Salmon River Is Turning Orange – And It's A Stark Warning

clock-iconSeptember 12, 2025
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Siberian Mummy's 2,000-Year-Old Tattoos Reveal The History Of Ancient ArtInfrared light brings out an ancient tattoo, as well as postmortem suture that suggests the art wasn't considered significant after death

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Siberian Mummy's 2,000-Year-Old Tattoos Reveal The History Of Ancient ArtInfrared light brings out an ancient tattoo, as well as postmortem suture that suggests the art wasn't considered significant after death
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Siberian Mummy's 2,000-Year-Old Tattoos Reveal The History Of Ancient Art

clock-iconJuly 31, 2025
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Ice Age Puppies Preserved In Permafrost For 14,000 Years Turn Out To Be WolvesThe Tumat Puppies were recently studied by researchers based in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Russia, and Sweden

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Ice Age Puppies Preserved In Permafrost For 14,000 Years Turn Out To Be WolvesThe Tumat Puppies were recently studied by researchers based in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Russia, and Sweden
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Ice Age Puppies, Preserved In Permafrost For 14,000 Years, Turn Out To Be Wolves

clock-iconJune 11, 2025
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World First 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Kitten Found Mummified In PermafrostA side view of the saber-toothed cat's head, recently discovered in Siberian permafrost.

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World First 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Kitten Found Mummified In PermafrostA side view of the saber-toothed cat's head, recently discovered in Siberian permafrost.
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World First 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Kitten Found Mummified In Permafrost

clock-iconNovember 15, 2024
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Strange Ice On Arctic Seafloor Shows It's A Surprisingly Dynamic World Down ThereMBARI's MiniROV surveys of the Arctic seafloor uncovered layers of fresh permafrost ice (shown in black), which formed as groundwater from melting permafrost refroze upon reaching the cold seafloor surface."

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Strange Ice On Arctic Seafloor Shows It's A Surprisingly Dynamic World Down ThereMBARI's MiniROV surveys of the Arctic seafloor uncovered layers of fresh permafrost ice (shown in black), which formed as groundwater from melting permafrost refroze upon reaching the cold seafloor surface."
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Strange Ice On Arctic Seafloor Shows It's A Surprisingly Dynamic World Down There

clock-iconOctober 7, 2024
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