Where were 15,000-year-old dormant viruses discovered?
Chapter 1

The planet's colossal ice giants

Chapter 2

Colorful anomalies and weird ice phenomena

Chapter 3

Extreme mountain glaciers and moving ice

Chapter 4

Deep freeze secrets and ancient time capsules

YOUR GOAL

Master of The secret life of glaciers

Ch 4 · Deep freeze secrets and ancient time capsules
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schopenhauer Resurrecting ancient viruses from Tibetan ice

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schopenhauer Glacial Time Capsules

Viking wool is thawing / Ancient bows and arrows / Rising from the deep freeze!

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schopenhauer Woolly mammoths and ice age beasts of Siberia

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The Lost Squadron of World War II planes

schopenhauer A fleet of American warplanes was recovered from beneath 260 feet of Greenland ice decades after crash-landing.

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Resurrecting ancient viruses from Tibetan ice

schopenhauer Scientists have successfully recovered and analyzed 15,000-year-old viruses frozen inside Tibetan glaciers.

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Glacier Gossip Globe
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schopenhauer Match icy gossip on the globe to discover Earth's most extreme glaciers.

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Fun Fact

Ancient seeds: Scientists successfully germinated a flowering plant from 32,000-year-old seeds buried by ice age squirrels in Siberian permafrost.

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Glossary
ice core (noun)
A cylinder of ice drilled from a glacier or ice sheet. In 1998, the Vostok ice core in Antarctica revealed climate history spanning over 420,000 years.

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Gossip

Should we clone frozen mammoths?

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Quiz

What did scientists find inside Ötzi the Iceman's stomach that was preserved for over 5,000 years?

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schopenhauer Ötzi the Iceman, Europe's oldest natural mummy

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What is the name of the 5,300-year-old mummy discovered in a melting Alpine glacier in 1991?

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schopenhauer The Lost Squadron of World War II planes

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What tool did recovery teams use to reach and extract the buried WWII planes from the Greenland glacier?

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In 2021, scientists discovered 15,000-year-old dormant viruses frozen inside a glacier in which region?

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What is the name of the famous 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth found perfectly preserved in Siberia?

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What was the 'Lost Squadron' buried under 260 feet of Greenland ice that was recovered in 1992?

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How do ancient viruses survive thousands of years inside glacial ice?

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What kind of weapon did Ötzi the Iceman carry that surprised archaeologists regarding Copper Age technology?

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