A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into ...

The frozen ground beneath our feet holds secrets from thousands of years past. These permanently frozen soils, known as ...

In a chilling development that echoes earlier breakthroughs, scientists have revived microbes that have been dormant for ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.

When temperatures sink well below zero and the ground freezes solid, most animals head for shelter or migrate somewhere ...

A pair of Ice Age “puppies” preserved in Siberian permafrost for over 14,000 years have turned out to be wolves, not early domesticated dogs. A recent study of two ancient “puppies” dating back more ...

MOSCOW (AP) - 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 ...

According to reports, these microbes were frozen in Alaska for almost 40,000 years. However, after thawing samples of ancient ...

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active ...

The land affected becomes largely useless for agriculture and infrastructure. YAKUTSK, Russia -- Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough ...

Paintings, poems and science are on display at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, illustrating the shared impact when ...