10 Animals Found Frozen In Ice

10 Animals Found Frozen in Ice!

We’ve all seen the documentaries with archaeologists carefully using a small
brush to dust away dirt from the remains of some long-dead creature. Finding the
brittle remnants of an extinct animal is pretty typical in this field. But once in a
while, researchers and tourists discover remains that are so well preserved that
they earn a spotlight of their own. Today we are going to show you 10 animals
found frozen in ice, but before watching the video don’t forget to subscribe to our
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10_ The Yuka Mammoth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFf1wyx91M
Though researchers have found multiple specimens of well-preserved woolly
mammoths in the past, Yuka is by far the more strikingly well-preserved to date.
The remains of this 1.8-meter (6 ft) baby woolly mammoth were accidentally
discovered in August 2010 in Yakutia, a remote region of Siberia. The animal was
between six and nine years old when it died, and its carcass is estimated to be
about 39,000 years old. Researchers say that Yuka was most likely killed by
humans since the remains show signs of having been cut open. That makes Yuka
the first woolly mammoth that shows evidence of interactions with humans. The
animal also has the most well-preserved woolly mammoth brain ever discovered,
with the folds and blood vessels still intact, Yuka is so well preserved, in fact, that
scientists are seriously discussing using her DNA to clone the species back into
existence. We guess the researchers didn’t learn anything from Jurassic Park.

9_ Moose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj__qrvhvco
It’s rare enough to find an animal preserved in ice, but rarer still is the apparent
freezing of two animals when they’re interacting with each other. Well, this is

what a couple of hikers found in Alaska in 2016. Beneath 8 inches of ice was the
stunning sight of two moose fighting each other, clearly so engrossed in their
tussle that they failed to notice the approaching frost.

In the fall, males tend to be more aggressive towards each other, likely due to
territorial disputes or to gain the attention of a female, and at some point, these
two managed to get their antlers tangled. They probably drowned in the cold
water before being frozen over as temperatures fell. Soon after their discovery,
the moose were removed from the ice by local enthusiasts who wanted to
preserve the unusual find forever.

8_ Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fpf0mBnQsA
As a fish living in water, ice can be both a blessing and a curse. It’s the unique
property of ice floating on top of water that helps to insulate warmth and allow
fish to survive falling temperatures, but they aren’t always so lucky. In 2014, a
sharp cold eastern wind sent temperatures plummeting very quickly around the
island of Lovund in Norway, and instantly froze parts of the ocean.
Unfortunately for a large shoal of fish, thought to be attempting to escape a
predator at the time, there was no chance to avoid the approaching ice, and they
were frozen in place. The ice sheet was so thick that it was perfectly safe for
people to walk across, and capture these amazing images of thousands of fish
frozen in time. This event had a major impact on the local ecosystem because
birds were unable to find any food, so the skies were strangely silent until the ice
finally thawed.

7_ Yukagir Bison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxQSebF8140
Siberia is one of the coldest places on earth that has been regularly inhabited for
millennia. This makes it the perfect place to find frozen animals like the Yuka

mammoth, and close by there was another discovery in 2011, the mummified
remains of a Steppe Bison- the ancestor to the modern bison. Discovered by a
tribe in the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, the bison was remarkably intact, with its brain
and other organs almost perfectly preserved.
This is the most complete Steppe Bison ever to be found and has allowed
researchers to extensively study its brain, heart, digestive system and blood
vessels, despite it being well over 9000 years old. With no visible signs of injury, it
is thought that the lack of body fat around its abdomen is a clue as to how it died.
Most likely from starvation as a result of the rapidly changing environment in the
area at the time.

6_ Selerikan Pony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dcwdlno9o
In 1968, gold miners digging tunnels, about 30 feet below the surface of the
Indigirka River in Siberia, found something surprising- two legs and a tail of a pony
sticking through the roof of one of their tunnels. Experts were called in from the
Zoological Institute of St. Petersburg to help recover the full animal, which they
managed to do, apart from its head.
The body turned out to be of a Przewalski Horse that nowadays is only found in
Mongolia, and amazingly this one appeared to have died about 35,000 years ago.
Analysis of the remains suggested that the horses lived relatively similar then to
how they still do today.

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