From giant viruses from the past returning, to extinct creatures found for the first time, here are 10 amazing creatures and organisms found frozen in ice.

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10. Blue Babe
During the summer of 1979, a family of gold miners was using a hydraulic hose to melt frozen ground near Fairbanks, Alaska. In the melted mud they uncovered the remains of what turned out to be the mummified carcass of a steppe bison (Bison priscus).

9. SPARTAK & BORIS
In 2018, a resident of the Yakutia region (also called the Sakha Republic) named Pavel Efimov discovered the well-preserved remains of a cave lion cub in melting permafrost along the Tirekhtykh River. Scientists determined that the baby big cat died around 43,500 years ago at just a month old, before it was old enough to open its eyes.

8. Giant Wolf Head
Pavel Efimov, the same local resident who found a nearly 50,000-year-old cave lion named Spartak in 2018, discovered a prehistoric severed wolf’s head in northern Yakutia’s Abyisky district the same year. The adult wolf was likely between two and four years old when it died around 32,000 years ago, according to scientists, who were tasked with examining the animal.

7. Horned Lark
While exploring the Siberian wilderness with two mammoth tusk hunters in September 2018, evolutionary geneticist Love Dalén had the privilege witnessing first-hand their discovery of a perfectly-preserved Ice Age bird in the permafrost. The small feathered flier looked, in Dalén’s words, “like it [had] died just a few days ago.”

6. LENA HORSE
In 2018, a team of paleontologists found a mummified horse foal in the 328-foot (100 meters) deep Bataiga Crater during an expedition in eastern Siberia. Its skin, hooves, and tail were still intact, thanks to the frozen conditions preserving the young creature’s remains.

5. RESURRECTED WORMS
A shocking 2018 study revealed that scientists had successfully revived two worm species that spent tens of thousands of years in a state of ‘suspended animation’ of sorts, frozen in the Siberian permafrost. The team’s findings, which were published in the journal Doklady Biological Sciences, details how the microscopic nematodes constitute the first known example of multicellular organisms returning to life after spending such a long time in a Siberian deep freeze.

4. RETURN OF A VIRUS
As we all grapple with the realities of the coronavirus pandemic, it probably seems absolutely insane that anyone would want to revive a long-dead virus. But that’s exactly what happened in 2014, when a team led by evolutionary biologist Jean-Michel Claverie revived two viruses that were found frozen 100 feet (30.5 meters) underground in the Siberian permafrost.

3. LYUBA
In 2007, a reindeer herder in northwestern Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula, named Yuri Khudi, discovered the corpse of an animal he’d heard of, but never seen first-hand. That’s because the astonishingly well-preserved carcass belonged to a baby mammoth, who choked to death on mud around 40,000 years ago after falling into water. She was one month old at the time. Scientists named her Lyuba, after her discoverer’s wife.

2. DOGOR
During the summer of 2018, mammoth tusk hunters exploring northeast of Yakutsk, Siberia discovered the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a prehistoric puppy in a lump of frozen mud. Scientists nicknamed it ‘Dogor.’

1. CAVE BEAR
Earlier this year, scientists from the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk announced the discovery of a remarkably well-preserved Ice Age cave bear on Siberia’s Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island. Quick-thinking reindeer herders happened upon the creature and contacted the university, realizing that time was of the essence when it came to preserving the bear’s remains.

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