Siberia

Siberian wildfires now bigger than all other fires in world combined 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 19, 2021
Huge fires have been fueled by the historic drought.

By David Aragorn
Remains of 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth pulled from Siberian lake 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 6, 2020
Rare find includes skin, tendon and excrement of what is thought to be an adult male

By David Aragorn
Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2020
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event. The results of their study have been recently published in the journal Geology.

By David Aragorn
A frozen bird found in Siberia is about 46,000 years old 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 25, 2020
A frozen bird was found on the ground in Siberia in 2018, but it had been there much longer than the latest snowfall. The bird is actually about 46,000 years old and was well-preserved in Siberian permafrost, scientists have determined.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Resuscitate 41,000-Year-Old Worm, 1,500-Year-Old Moss 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 11, 2019
Scientists are uncovering, thawing and resuscitating various life forms, some of which are older than modern human civilization, as glaciers recede.

By David Aragorn
Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 14, 2019
Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But only European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians. Now, with the help of ancient DNA samples, researchers reporting in Current Biology on May 9 suggest that these languages may have arrived from Siberia by the beginning of the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago, rather than evolving in Northern Europe.

By David Aragorn
Siberian cave findings shed light on enigmatic extinct human species 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 8, 2019
Scientists using sophisticated techniques to determine the age of bone fragments, teeth and artifacts unearthed in a Siberian cave have provided new insight into a mysterious extinct human species that may have been more advanced than previously known.

By David Aragorn
Giant glowing orb appears over Siberia 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 31, 2017
Social media erupts with alien invasion theories — until a more sensible explanation emerges.

By David Aragorn
UFO spotted over Siberia – but is it a meteor, a Putin missile or aliens?0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- November 2, 2016
These extraordinary images have got experts baffled

By David Aragorn