24,000-Year-Old Siberian Worms Revived By Experts—10 Things You Need To Know
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Russian biologists have isolated living bdelloid rotifers from about twenty-four thousand years old permafrost. Apparently, all this time, the tiny…
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Siberia’s “Living Crater”
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A dark dark mountain rises above the bright green landscape of the dense Russian taiga. Looking like a giant speaker…
Radiocarbon Dating Helps Researchers Solve Archaeological Riddle in Siberia
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There’s a mysterious complex in southern Siberia that has attached experts for decades. Despite conclusive evidence about its construction, we’ve…
Rewriting History: Oldest Connection Between Native Americans and Siberia
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With the help of human population genetics, ancient pathogen genomics, and isotope analysis, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for…
46,000-Year-Old Frozen Bird Found In Siberia Stuns Experts
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In 2018, researchers in Siberia came across a frozen bird hidden among the permafrost. Analysis of the bird’s remains revealed…
Here’s the First Video of the Massive Head of a 40,000-Year-Old Siberian Wolf
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The world was recently introduced to another sensational discovery made in Siberia: the severed head of a massive, 40,000-year-old extinct…
Here Are 7 Striking Discoveries From Siberia That Changed History
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Siberia, spanning across a massive geographical region encompassing parts of Eurasia and North Asia, this territory extends from the Ural…
5,000-Year-Old Rock Art Depicting “Celestial Bodies” Revealed in Siberia
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Some 5,000 years ago, artists in Siberia drew some of the most sophisticated artwork the region has ever seen. Depicting…
Remains of 5,000-Year-Old Siberian “Birdman” Discovered by Archaeologists
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An odd but significant discovery has been made in Siberia, shedding light on the customs and religious practices of people…
Scientists Baffled by Siberian ‘Living Crater’ that Constantly ‘Shape Shifts’
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It’s a strange world out there. More than 70 years ago, geologists stumbled across a strange crater in Siberia. Dubbed…
How a Change in Climate Wiped out the ‘Siberian Unicorn’
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Kieren Mitchell, University of Adelaide; Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum; Alan Cooper, University of Adelaide, and Chris Turney, UNSW A…
165 Years of Nikola Tesla; His Truths, Mysteries, Secrets and Inventions
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On this day, a man was born 165 years ago who knew how to teleport objects, extract energy from nothing, and communicate with extraterrestrials. At least, popular rumors endowed Nikola Tesla with these phenomenal abilities and more.
Scientists Reconstruct Oldest Modern Human Genome From 45,000-Year-Old Skull
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The genome of a modern human was deciphered, whose skull was found in the Zlatý Kun (“Golden Horse”) cave in…
60 Years Since The First Human Space Flight
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On April 12, we celebrate exactly six decades since the launch of the first human to space. Anniversaries are a…
Tunguska – UFO Crash or Natural Explanation? Here’s What the CIA Files Say
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Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, at 7 hours and 15 minutes local time, a fireball passed through…
Scientists Successfully Recover Oldest DNA in History From 1.2 Million-Year-Old Mammoth
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Biologists have reconstructed the ancient DNA of three mammoths from the Siberian permafrost. The age of two specimens exceeds a…
What Caused The Mysterious Tunguska Explosion of 1908?
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On June 17, 1908, in the sky over a sparsely populated area of the taiga, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River,…
What Happened To The 42,000-Year-Old Frozen Nematodes That Russian Scientists “Woke Up” in 2018?
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The news that Russian scientists have “thawed” ancient nematodes (roundworms) from the Siberian permafrost initially attracted attention in 2018. Then,…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Last Ice Age
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What do you imagine when you hear the words “ice age”? I bet that makes you think of mammoths and…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Ancient Clovis Culture
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Theoretical evidence for the existence of ancient American cultures that predated the previously known civilizations existed long before the original…
10 Most Well-Preserved Pre-Historic Animals Of All Time
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Archaeologists excavate numerous sites and stumble upon various remnants of mummified or naturally preserved bodies. The remnants are usually found…
10 Mysterious and Historical Places to Visit in Bulgaria
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Countries like Bulgaria rarely fall in the field of view with the existence of the major tourist locations in…