elegans kills them, although dehydrated and then frozen animals can survive for at least 500 days ... a biologist at Rutgers University who was involved in similar work in rotifers in permafrost, ...

Since Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill back in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be. Many scientists are focusing their research on a hypothetical future ...

The permafrost melted, exposing in the process the frozen carcasses of reindeer who had died an estimated 150 years before thanks to an epidemic of anthrax. While the animals were dead ...

In 2016, anthrax spores escaped from an animal carcass that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 75 years, leaving dozens hospitalised and one child dead.

These so-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals for tens of thousands of years. But as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws, scientists ...

a layer of frozen ground, or permafrost, that is hundreds of feet deep—and warming fast. Twigs, other plant matter, and Ice Age animal parts—bison jaws, horse femurs, mammoth bones—spilled ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land ... network of wetlands and lakes across the Arctic tundra that provide habitat for animals and plants. The thawing of ...

I am talking of those subarctic and arctic regions that are based on permafrost — permanently frozen ground — that supports forests of spruce and birch and tundras of feathery moss ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...